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English

Etymology

impute +? -ability

Noun

imputability (countable and uncountable, plural imputabilities)

1. The character of being imputable.

Related terms

• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• imputation
• impute

Translations

References

• imputability in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle French imputation, from Latin imputatio.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.pj??te?.??n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

imputation (countable and uncountable, plural imputations)

1. The act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription.
2. That which has been imputed or charged.
3. Charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.
4. (theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.

5. Opinion; intimation; hint.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     All the legends of the past, and all the stupefying imputations of Henry Akeley’s letters and exhibits, welled up in my memory to heighten the atmosphere of tension and growing menace.

6. (statistics) The process of replacing missing data with substituted values.
7. (genetics) The statistical inference of unobserved genotypes.
8. (game theory) A distribution that is efficient and individually rational.

Related terms

• imputability
• imputable
• imputableness
• imputably
• imputational
• impute
• reimputation

Translations

References

• imputation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• imputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.py.ta.sj??/

Noun

imputation f (plural imputations)

1. imputation