meaning of postulate
1. To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.
2. To take without express consent; to assume.
3. To invite earnestly; to solicit.
4. Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
5. The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.
6. Postulated.
7. logic a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
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