HYPOTHESIS

(Lat.), n. f. Hip(hup)-o2th'e2-si2s. Gen., -the's eos (-oth'esis). Gr., virdfleo-is (from vird, under, and TiOevai, to place) Fr., hypo these. Ger., Hypo these, Vorau etzung. A supposition. Discharge h. Ger., Entladungshypothese. A theory of Du Bois-Reymond's in which an electric discharge is supposed to occur in the terminal filaments of nerves, whereby the corresponding muscles are stimulated. [K, 35.] Emi ion h. The h. that lum i O, no; O", not; O3, whole; Tli, thin; Th2, the; U, like oo in [s. 421]