thesis
IPA: θˈisʌs
noun
- Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
- (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
- (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
- (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
- (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
- Senses relating to music and prosody.
- (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
- (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.
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Examples of "thesis" in Sentences
- It's the entire thesis of the book.
- Is the thesis generally disbelieved
- This is the thesis of privileged access.
- It contradicts the thesis of the article.
- This isn't the thesis of the revisionist's.
- This is the fundametal thesis of the article.
- The subject of his doctoral thesis was Spectroscopy.
- The Anti thesis is the Spot and the Synthesis is the Dwarf.
- His thesis was on the subject of gynaecology and obstetrics.
- It is a triad process of the thesis, antithesis and synthesis.
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