thesis

• a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research
• an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
• A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument
• Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme
• An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis
• The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat
• The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word
• The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls

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