Definitions
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin positus, perfect participle of pōnō (“put, place”). Noun sense 3 (type of number format) was coined by American computer scientist and businessman John Gustafson in 2017.
Used in a sentence
“With their new hardware implementation, which was synthesized in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the Complutense team was able to compare computations done using 32-bit floats and 32-bit posits side by side.”
“some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.”
“Ray's natural theology posited that God was responsible for the near-perfect match between an animal and its environment and encouraged readers to seek evidence for God through the study of nature.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Assume as true”5 letters
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