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Definition of Expectation

1. Noun. Belief about (or mental picture of) the future.

2. Noun. Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment.

3. Noun. The feeling that something is about to happen.

4. Noun. The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values.

Definition of Expectation

1. n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Definition of Expectation

1. Noun. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. ¹

2. Noun. That which is expected or looked for. ¹

3. 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. ¹

4. Noun. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. ¹

5. Noun. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment. ¹

6. Noun. (context: colloquial statistics) the arithmetic mean ¹

7. Noun. (medicine) (rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expectation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Expectation

1. 1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. "In expectation of a guest." "My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him." (Ps. Lxii. 5) 2. That which is expected or looked for. "Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman." (Milton) 3. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, especially. Of c or rank. "His magnificent expiations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best much in Europe." (Prescott) "By all men's eyes a youth of expectations." (Otway) 4. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event. 5. The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Synonym: Anticipation, confidence, trust. Origin: L. Expectio. Exspectio: cf. F. Expectation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expectation

expatriatism expatriatisms expatriot expats expect expect the unexpected expectable expectably expectance expectances

expectancies expectancy expectant expectantly expectants expectation expectation neurosis expectation of life expectational expectations

expectative expectative grace expected expected date of confinement expected value expectedly expectedness expectednesses expecter expecters

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