Usually means: Infer conclusions from known facts.
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  1. deduce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deduce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deduce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deduce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deduce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deduce, deduce: Wordnik
  7. deduce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deduce: Wiktionary
  9. deduce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deduce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deduce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deduce, deduce: Dictionary.com
  13. deduce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deduce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deduce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deduce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deduce: Rhymezone
  18. deduce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deduce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deduce: Free Dictionary
  21. deduce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deduce: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. deduce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. deduce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. deduce: Legal dictionary

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  2. deduce: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
verb:  (transitive, uncommon) To examine, explain, or record (something) in an orderly manner.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To obtain (something) from some source; to derive.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To be derived or obtained from some source.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To take away (something); to deduct, to subtract (something).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, based on the word’s Latin etymon) To lead (something) forth.

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