Definition of theory

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Theory (n.) A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation..

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Mechanical :: Mechanical (a.) Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits..
Heterogenist :: Heterogenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis..
Theory :: Theory (n.) An exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science; as, the theory of music..
Fanciful :: Fanciful (a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory..
Epigenesist :: Epigenesist (n.) One who believes in, or advocates the theory of, epigenesis..
Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis..
Humorism :: Humorism (n.) The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
Helleborism :: Helleborism (n.) The practice or theory of using hellebore as a medicine.
Conceptualist :: Conceptualist (n.) One who maintains the theory of conceptualism.
Improvement :: Improvement (n.) The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse..
Kindergarten :: Kindergarten (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden..
Practice :: Practice (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
Undulationist :: Undulationist (n.) One who advocates the undulatory theory of light.
Stimulism :: Stimulism (n.) The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or deficiency in the amount of stimulation..
Sound :: Sound (n.) The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound..
Scheme :: Scheme (n.) A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme..
Physicist :: Physicist (n.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government.
Plutonism :: Plutonism (n.) The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis..
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