THESIS

noun (plural theses) see: do Date: 14th century 1. a. the unstressed part of a poetic foot especially in accentual verse, the longer part of a poetic foot especially in quantitative verse, the accented part of a musical measure ; downbeat , 2. a position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument, a proposition to be proved or one advanced without proof ; hypo~ , the first and least adequate stage of dialectic, a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view