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THEOREM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An idea accepted as a demonstrable truth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("theorem" is a kind of...):
idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theorem"):
Bayes' theorem ((statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A proposition deducible from basic postulates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("theorem" is a kind of...):
proposition ((logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theorem"):
binomial theorem (a theorem giving the expansion of a binomial raised to a given power)
