Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 19 compound words that contain thesis. The most common are listed below. Open thesis in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- master's thesisA thesis submitted for a master's degree.
- thesis defenseThe final step in earning a doctorate: an oral examination in which the doctorand publicly defends his/her thesis to the examiners.
- thesis statementA sentence in the introduction of an essay, thesis or academic paper that clarifies the main point of the text.
- doctoral thesisA research paper that a student writes in order to complete the requirements for a doctorate; a dissertation.
- bachelor's thesisA thesis for bachelor's degree.
- conflict thesisA historiographical approach in the history of science, maintaining that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science and that it inevitably leads to hostility.
- Merton thesisA theory that significant developments in the modern world have a positive correlation with Protestant pietism, similar to Weber's link between success and the Protestant ethic.
- Habakkuk thesisThe theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of manufacturing based on the …
- Church-Turing thesisA hypothesis about the nature of computable functions, stating that a function on the natural numbers can be calculated by an effective method if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine.
- graduate thesisA master's thesis or (doctoral) dissertation.
- Rothbarth-Habakkuk thesisSynonym of Habakkuk thesis: The theory that land abundance and labor scarcity in the 19th-century United States led to high wages, which resulted in labor-saving technological innovations and the development of the American system of …
- all but thesisThe status of a master's degree, doctoral, or (infrequently) undergraduate student who has completed all degree requirements except the culminating thesis.
- bowling alone thesisThe posited decline of social capital in the United States since 1950.
- e-thesisAn academic thesis published on the Internet.
- thesis statementsplural of thesis statement: A sentence in the introduction of an essay, thesis or academic paper that clarifies the main point of the text.
- private language thesisThe thesis or contention that a private language cannot exist.
- thesis defensesplural of thesis defense: The final step in earning a doctorate: an oral examination in which the doctorand publicly defends his/her thesis to the examiners.
Compound words 19
- nonthesisNot being or relating to a thesis.
- counterthesisA thesis that rebuts another.
- synthesisThe formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
- hypothesisA tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem and that can be tested by further observation, investigation, or experimentation.
- parenthesisA clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
- prosthesisAn artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
- antithesisA proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
- diathesisA hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder.
- prothesisThe prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Greek (via Latin) sphaera (“sphere”) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).
- parathesisThe placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.