| def: a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations which can be tested defprov: OBI altdef: An experimental hypothesis is a statement about cause-effect relations between known and unknown (target) variables of the domain of the experiment "that shall be in accordance with known facts*" to be verified at the experiment. Reference: The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2 Ed., 1989 (taken from EXPO, Larissa Soldatova) |
| •owl:Thing |
| •entity |
| •continuant |
| •dependent_continuant |
| •realizable_entity |
| •cardinal_part_of_design_specification |
| •hypothesis |