<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or process of inferring.</li><li>something that is inferred: to make rash inferences.</li><li>Logic: the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.</li><li>the process of arriving at some conclusion that, though it is not logically derivable from the assumed premises, possesses some degree of probability relative to the premises.</li><li>a proposition reached by a process of inference.</li></ul>