expectation
/ɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
- That which is expected or looked for.
- The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
- The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
- The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
- (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
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