假说 (jiǎ shuō) — (scientific) hypothesis; postulate

Definition

Examples

• 科学家提出了一个新假说来解释这个现象。
  Kē xué jiā tí chū le yí gè xīn jiǎ shuō lái jiě shì zhè ge xiàn xiàng.
  Scientists put forward a new hypothesis to explain this phenomenon.
• 这个假说还需要更多的实验来验证。
  Zhè ge jiǎ shuō hái xū yào gèng duō de shí yàn lái yàn zhèng.
  This hypothesis still needs more experiments to verify.
• 达尔文的进化论最初也是一种假说。
  Dá ěr wén de jìn huà lùn zuì chū yě shì yì zhǒng jiǎ shuō.
  Darwin's theory of evolution was also a hypothesis at the beginning.