initial assumption

collocation in English

meaningsofinitialandassumption

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initial
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/us
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/
of or at ...
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assumption
noun
uk
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofinitialandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinitial assumption

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Statistical power, therefore, failed to live up to ourinitialassumption.
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Agnes's naiveté is evident in herinitialassumptionthat she can take her own childhood as a model.
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In the third case we use ourinitialassumption.
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However, the exercise is rendered moot because theinitialassumptionis, at best, implausible.
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Ourinitialassumptionwas that they had been taken from enemies vanquished by the soldiers who were wearing them- that is, they represented individual combat records.
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Thus, we make noinitialassumptionabout the relationship between labour market centralization and budgets deficits and let the empirical analysis show what the relationship is (if it exists).
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Theinitialassumption, as to the amount of land requiring protection, is, of course, speculative; only experience will show the true figure.
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Aninitialassumptionmust be made about the economic life, for planning purposes.
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I do not share theinitialassumptionthat there must be a large capital loss.
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Theirinitialassumptionthat every town in the state had at least one good tale to tell proved a gross underestimation.
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The team then attempts another differential diagnosis with theinitialassumptionof syphilis.
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The 80% survival rate was aninitialassumption, built into the parameters of the computer simulation by its designers.
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Aninitialassumptionis that the number of molecular orbitals is equal to the number of atomic orbitals included in the linear expansion.
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Though they result in two opposite outcomes, both paths of attribution rely on aninitialassumptionwhich then leads to a logical conclusion.
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According to the initial assumptions, the duration of protection against disease and carriage was practically permanent.
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However, the sensitivity of the results to initial assumptions of the rigidity of the filter is a little unclear.
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When that ended 11, theinitialassumptionwas that extra time would follow, but competition rules only provided for that in the event of a second replay.
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Since initial assumptions can lead to trouble later, this bootstrapping is subject to empirical control.
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The validity of this result does, however, hinge on the validity of theinitialassumptionthat the policemen stopped the driver truly at random, and not because of bad driving.
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