0 present participle of assume --
1 to accept something to be true without question or proof: --
2 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.
3 to take or begin to have responsibility or control, sometimes without the right to do so, or to begin to have a characteristic: --
Assuming that some simple conditions are verified, a quantitative analysis of the atomic species constituting a sample is possible, without the need for calibration curves.
One way of looking at this is by assuming a decline in households in which children care for their elderly parents.
Faerch explains this difference by referring to markedness conditions, assuming that verb-second is the more marked word order.
Women rated intervention more favorably when assuming "ideal" rather than realistic levels of resources, but men did not.
However, if this is not the case, assuming constant prices biases the welfare estimates.
Other examples come from the municipalities that are assuming more responsibility for prevention, health promotion, and rehabilitation.
They illustrate the spatial distribution of the achievable height accuracy assuming a precise functional and stochastic model.
Since we are not assuming weak purity, the vertical map on the right of this diagram need not be injective.
