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A proposed explanation or assumption offered for examination or testing.

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hypothesis

The students tested their hypothesis by changing one feature of the model.
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A campus print team noticed that one poster had emerged with a narrow stripe. Their first hypothesis was that the uploaded image contained the stripe, but the original file looked clean.
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