assumption

assumption has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
• n.. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
• n.. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
• n.. The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
• n.. The taking of a person up into heaven.
• n.. A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
• n.. the act of taking possession of or power over something; "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"
• n.. the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
• n.. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
• n.. a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
• n.. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
• n.. (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended