IMPUTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The attribution to a source or cause

Example:

the imputation that my success was due to nepotism meant that I was not taken seriously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("imputation" is a kind of...):

ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)

Derivation:

impute (attribute or credit to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement attributing something dishonest (especially a criminal offense)

Example:

he denied the imputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("imputation" is a kind of...):

accusal; accusation (a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imputation"):

finger-pointing; fingerpointing (the imputation of blame)

Derivation:

impute (attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source)

Credits

Context examples:

A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the best possible outcome.

(Best Case Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

Baseline Observation Carried Forward: A data imputation technique which populates missing values with the subject's nonmissing baseline observation.

(Baseline Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I am glad you think so, Copperfield, rejoined Traddles, because, without any imputation on the Reverend Horace, I do think parents, and brothers, and so forth, are sometimes rather selfish in such cases.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had finished: Miss Temple regarded me a few minutes in silence; she then said—I know something of Mr. Lloyd; I shall write to him; if his reply agrees with your statement, you shall be publicly cleared from every imputation; to me, Jane, you are clear now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But I could have easily vindicated humankind from the imputation of singularity upon the last article, if there had been any swine in that country (as unluckily for me there were not), which, although it may be a sweeter quadruped than a Yahoo, cannot, I humbly conceive, in justice, pretend to more cleanliness; and so his honour himself must have owned, if he had seen their filthy way of feeding, and their custom of wallowing and sleeping in the mud.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Miss Temple, having assembled the whole school, announced that inquiry had been made into the charges alleged against Jane Eyre, and that she was most happy to be able to pronounce her completely cleared from every imputation.