different between imputation vs impute

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

Borrowed from Old French imputer, from Latin imput? (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Verb

impute (third-person singular simple present imputes, present participle imputing, simple past and past participle imputed)

1. (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.

   Synonyms: attribute, insinuate, charge, imply
2. (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
3. (transitive) To take into account.

   Synonyms: consider, regard, reckon
4. (transitive) To attribute or credit to.

   Synonyms: attribute, ascribe, assign
5. (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.

Related terms

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• uptime

French

Verb

impute

1. first-person singular present indicative of imputer
2. third-person singular present indicative of imputer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imputer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imputer
5. second-person singular imperative of imputer

Portuguese

Verb

impute

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of imputar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of imputar
3. first-person singular imperative of imputar
4. third-person singular imperative of imputar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [im?pute]

Verb

impute

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of imputa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of imputa

Spanish

Verb

impute

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of imputar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of imputar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of imputar.