inference
Pronunciation: /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/
The English word “inference” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
- Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
- An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
Etymology
From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.
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More English words
- inferability
- inferable
- inferably
- Inferagrarian
- inference rule
- inference to the best explanation
- inferencing
- inferent
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