inference

• inferrence (misspelling)

From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer +‎ -ence.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/, [ˈɪɱ.fə.ɹəns], [ˈɪɱ.fɹəns]

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/, [ˈɪɱ.fɚ.əns], /ˈɪn.fɹəns/, [ˈɪɱ.fɹəns]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/, [ˈɪɱ.fə.ɹəns], [ˈɪɱ.fɹəns]

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• Hyphenation: in‧fer‧ence

inference (countable and uncountable, plural inferences)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
2. (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
   • 2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 124:

     A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.

3. (uncountable, artificial intelligence) Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
4. (countable, artificial intelligence) An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪnfɛrɛnt͡sɛ]

inference f

1. inference

   Synonym: usuzování

• See oferta

• “inference”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “inference”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “inference”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025