1 [C] something that you can find out indirectly from what you already know:
to draw / make inferences from the data * The clear inference is that the universe is expanding.
2 [U] the act or process of forming an opinion, based on what you already know:
If he is guilty then, by inference, so is his wife (= it is logical to think so, from the same evidence).
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