expectation
- Noun. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
- Noun. That which is expected or looked for.
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
- Noun. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
- Noun. (context, colloquial statistics) the arithmetic mean.
- Noun. (medicine) (rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. .
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