different between imputation vs assignation

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignacioun, from Old French assignacion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æs???ne???n/

Noun

assignation (countable and uncountable, plural assignations)

1. An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
2. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.

3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

Usage notes

Modern usage confines the word to mean an agreed-upon place for illicit sex, but earlier usage is broader, and considerably more innocent.

Anagrams

• saginations

French

Etymology

From Latin ass?gn?ti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

assignation f (plural assignations)

1. (law) summons, subpoena

Related terms

• assigner

Further reading

• “assignation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).