THEOREM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theorem mean? 

• THEOREM (noun)
  The noun THEOREM has 2 senses:

1. a proposition deducible from basic postulates

2. an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth

  Familiarity information: THEOREM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEOREM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A proposition deducible from basic postulates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

proposition ((logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false)

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

binomial theorem (a theorem giving the expansion of a binomial raised to a given power)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An idea accepted as a demonstrable truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

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

Bayes' theorem ((statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause)

 Context examples 

A generalization of the Pythagorean theorem to more than two coordinates.

(Euclidean Distance Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)