0 to accept something to be true without question or proof: --
1 to pretend to have a different name or be someone you are not, or to express a feeling falsely: --
He assumed a look of indifference but I knew how he felt.
During the investigation, two detectives assumed the identities of antiques dealers.
2 to take or begin to have responsibility or control, sometimes without the right to do so, or to begin to have a characteristic: --
3 to accept something as true without question or proof: --
[ + (that) clause ] I assumed (that) nobody was home because the car wasn’t in the driveway.
[ + (that) clause ] We can’t assume (that) he’s innocent simply because he says he is.
4 to pretend to be someone you are not, or to express a feeling falsely: --
Jim assumed a look of indifference.
During the investigation, two detectives assumed the identities of antique dealers.
5 to take control or claim authority, sometimes without the right to do so: --
The paths and the homotopy can be assumed smooth.
In addition, many of the primitive parsers can be simplified by assuming that the functions representing parsers and the functions representing success continuations are curried.
To isolate the problem, assume that if satisfactory reasoning is not forthcoming, the decision can be reversed.
Assume every $1 contribution returns $500 to the group- $0.50 to the contributor and $499.50 to the other members ($0.50 each).
We assume that there are constant returns to scale in agriculture.
Within the psychological tradition, hypothesis-testing models traditionally assume the former.
A purely imaginary constant could be added on the right here, but it can be assumed to vanish.
Indeed, we assume that the phonetic processes of the type described are generally not accessible to overt manipulation.
