anticipation
- Noun. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
- Noun. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
- Noun. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
- Noun. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
- Noun. (music) a non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
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