postulate in English

noun
1
a thing suggested or assumed as true as the basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.
perhaps the postulate of Babylonian influence on Greek astronomy is incorrect
verb
1
suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.
his theory postulated a rotatory movement for hurricanes
synonyms:put forwardsuggestadvanceposithypothesizeproposeassumepresupposepresumetake for granted
2
(in ecclesiastical law) nominate or elect (someone) to an ecclesiastical office subject to the sanction of a higher authority.
noun
verb

Use "postulate" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "postulate" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "postulate", or refer to the context using the word "postulate" in the English Dictionary.

1. 14 State postulate is developed into energy state postulate.

2. This fifth mysterious postulate is known simply as the parallel postulate.

3. 3 It is, at best, a postulate.

4. Some postulate that living organisms arrived on earthbound meteors.

5. 17 This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent.

6. 15 They postulate excessive increase in price.

7. The postulate of Causality would be violated)

8. 13 Offe also challenges the postulate of an "organized capitalism".

9. This is also in accordance with my postulate of radical fallibility.

10. 1 Let's postulate that she is a cook.

11. 16 Fruit quality is the postulate that raises economic benefits.

12. 18 Out of postulate three it says Newtonian mechanics applicable.

13. I would postulate that the Maghreb and the Sahel region is a strategic region.

14. 9 Subjects depend on each other. National objectives postulate certain contents.

15. Because even an idiotic postulate needs to be disproved by scientific means.

16. 4 Here Moscovici is offering a universal postulate about social psychological processes.

17. 23 A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate.

18. 26 If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate.

19. 19 You discuss the dermas of a labia and postulate the origin of life.

20. As a result, evolutionists postulate, these isolated groups eventually developed into totally new species.

21. 27 Zhang Dongsun thinks knowledge is joint product of sense,(www.Sentencedict.com) form and postulate.

22. We do not postulate that the sun is not there or is dead.

23. 10 Because even an idiotic postulate needs to be disproved by scientific means.

24. 6 It would be reasonable to accept any postulate that would make it more probable.

25. 24 The null result was directly related to a central postulate of the theory.

26. We identify moderator variables and postulate potential effects in order to account for the variance observed.

27. You see, unlike the first four, the fifth postulate is worded in a very convoluted way.

28. This has led some analysts to postulate conflict among the great powers today as extremely unlikely.

29. 28 We must now devise a mathematical way of expressing this postulate, and investigate its consequences.

30. 12 With this philosophy in mind, we postulate that the divergent process is the worst possible.

31. The proposed postulate restricts the allowable directions of traction forces in a deformed continuous medium.

32. Analysis of this proposed TS led to the postulate that 2,6-substitution may hinder rotation even more.

33. 20 This postulate suggested a practical strategy for determining relative atomic weights from elemental percentages in compounds.

34. 29 We can see individuals, but we can't see providence; we have to postulate it Aldous Huxley.

35. 27 With this philosophy in mind, we postulate that the divergent process is the worst possible.

36. As the postulate period of six months came to a close, I looked forward to receiving a ring.

37. One of these, the parallel postulate, has been the subject of debate among mathematicians for many centuries.

38. It seems necessary to postulate a potentiating process which is dependent on the amplitude of the depolarization.

39. They all experimented with negating the parallel postulate, only to discover that this gave rise to entire alternative geometries.

40. In the process, they began looking at what would happen logically if the fifth postulate were actually not true.

41. In declaring that God does not exist, a person makes a sweeping unsubstantiated statement —a postulate based on faith.”

42. Bayes' postulate is that, when nothing to the contrary is known, the probabilities should be assumed to be equal.

43. We postulate that the protective benefit for merganser nests in tern colonies accounts for the evolution of the nesting association.

44. 7 Bayes' postulate is that, when nothing to the contrary is known, the probabilities should be assumed to be equal.

45. In conclusion, we postulate that the anal cancer can be considered as a consequence of the long-standing rectal prolapse.

46. Disruptive events scenarios postulate the occurrence of low- probability events leading to the possible abnormal degradation and loss of containment.

47. 11 It is a crucial postulate underpinning all the social sciences that individuals are related through associations of various kinds.

48. 8 But a postulate in a Euclidean system must be accepted in order to maintain the integrity of the whole.

49. 2 Even if we postulate that she had a motive for the murder, that still doesn't mean she did it.

50. Axioms and postulates are almost the same thing, though historically, the descriptor “postulate” was used for a universal truth specific to geometry, whereas the descriptor “axiom” was used for a more general universal truth, which is applicable throughout Mathematics (nowadays, the two terms are used interchangeably; in fact, postulate