Meaning of speculation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The faculty of sight.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The faculty of sight
3. An act of looking at something; examination, observation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. to make guesses. He's only speculating – he doesn't know; There's no point in speculating about what's going to happen. spekuleer يَتَحَزَّر، يَتَكَهَّن، يَتأمَّل налучквам especular dohadovat se Vermutungen anstellen spekulere κάνω υποθέσεις especular arvama, oletama حدس زدن spekuloida spéculer (sur) לְשַעֵר कयास लगाना, अंदाज लगाना nagađati, umovati spekulál menduga-duga geta sér til um speculare 推測する 추측하다 spėlioti izteikt minējumus/pieņēmumus mengagak; meneka gissenspekulere zgadywać حدس وه...
5. An act of looking at something; examination, observation
6. The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
   countable, uncountable
7. Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.
8. The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject
9. Engagement in risky business transactions on the chance of quick or considerable profit.
10. The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
    countable, uncountable
11. The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed
12. the act or an instance of speculating
13. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
    countable, uncountable
14. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture
15. a supposition, theory, or opinion arrived at through speculating
16. An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
    countable, uncountable
17. (Stock Exchange) investment involving high risk but also the possibility of high profits
18. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
    countable, uncountable
19. the contemplation or consideration of some subject.
20. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
    countable, uncountable
21. a single instance or process of consideration.
22. The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
    countable, uncountable
23. a conclusion or opinion reached by such contemplation.
24. conjectural consideration of a matter; conjecture or surmise.

Equivalents

Examples

“Thou hast no speculation in those eyes.”

“[T]he expression of exultation and content on their animated faces, is one of my most delicious speculations.”

“Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts.”

“It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.”

“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.”

“[N]ear the Age of Socrates lived their Great and Renowned Confutius, who began the ſame Deſign, of reclaiming Men from the uſeless and endleſs Speculations of Nature, to thoſe of Morality.”

“To his speculations on these subjects he gave the lofty name of the "Oracles of Reason".”

“Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.”

“Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.”

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