Толковый словарь английского языка - inference

noun Date: 1594 the act or process of inferring: as, the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow from that of the former, the act of passing from statistical sample data to generalizations (as of the value of population parameters) usually with calculated degrees of certainty, something that is inferred, the premises and conclusion of a process of inferring