Thesis

Noun

1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc. A proposition or statement supported by arguments. A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation. A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention. An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis. In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
2. A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
3. A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
4. A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
5. An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.