posit – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: proposition,
put,
lay,
place,
set,
pose,
advise,
suggest,
propose,
suppose,
presuppose
posit
v.
assume, postulate; present a position, establish a viewpoint
Posit
Posit is something that is posited; a postulate; an
axiom. It may also refer to:
POSIT, as an acronym, may stand for:
- Pose from Orthography and Scaling with Iterations, a computer vision algorithm that performs 3D pose estimation
posit
Noun
1. (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
(synonym) postulate
(hypernym) proposition
(hyponym) Bayes' postulate
(derivation) postulate
(classification) logic
Verb
1. put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
(synonym) situate, fix, deposit
(hypernym) put, set, place, pose, position, lay
(hyponym) bury
(derivation) placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
2. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
(synonym) submit, state, put forward
(hypernym) propose, suggest, advise
3. take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
(synonym) postulate
(hypernym) presuppose, suppose
(hyponym) insist, assert
(derivation) postulate
Posit
(v. t.)
To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
(v. t.)
To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
posit
(as in "de-posit) To posit is to put presume the existence of or to to suggest the existence of for consideration and study as if it were it were in fact existing, or to pretend that something exists without question as if it were an
apodictic truth.
