Usually means: Drawing conclusions from available evidence.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word inference:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. inference: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inference, inference: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inference: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inference: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inference: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inference, inference: Wordnik
  7. inference: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inference: Wiktionary
  9. inference: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inference: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inference: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. inference: Dictionary.com
  13. inference: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inference (album), Inference: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Inference: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inference: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inference: Rhymezone
  18. Inference: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inference: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inference: Free Dictionary
  21. inference: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inference: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. inference: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. inference: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. inference: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. inference: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. inference: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. inference: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. inference: CCI Computer
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. inference: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. inference: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. inference: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. inference: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. inference: Evolution Glossary
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inference: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
noun:  (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

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