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Definition of Anticipation

1. Noun. An expectation.

2. Noun. Something expected (as on the basis of a norm). "An indicator of expectancy in development"

3. Noun. The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future).

4. Noun. Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment.

Definition of Anticipation

1. n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

Definition of Anticipation

1. Noun. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. ¹

2. Noun. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur. ¹

3. Noun. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest. ¹

4. Noun. (rhetoric) Prolepsis. ¹

5. 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 ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anticipation

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Medical Definition of Anticipation

1. 1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. "So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery." (Shak) 2. Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. "The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just." (Thodey) 3. Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. "Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds." (Locke) 4. The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. Synonym: Preoccupation, preclusion, foretaste, prelibation, antepast, pregustation, preconception, expectation, foresight, forethought. Origin: L. Anticipatio: cf. F. Anticipation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticipation

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anticipates anticipatest anticipateth anticipating anticipatingly anticipation (current term) anticipations anticipative anticipatively anticipator

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Literary usage of Anticipation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Harmony: Founded on Key Relationship, by Means of which a by Hugh Archibald Clarke, Homer Albert Norris (1903)
"8 3 " THE anticipation: THE APPOGGIATURA: THE EMBROIDERY: IRREGULAR ... THE anticipation. The anticipation is a note which is sounded in advance of the ..."

2. Economics: An Introduction for the General Reader by Henry Clay (1918)
"This description, however, gives only one-half of the work of the dealer; the other half consists of the anticipation of demand, and of buying at one time ..."

3. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"anticipation IN THE SPHERE OF GOVERNMENT Taxes laid on voluntary actions or on the results of such Pr°- actions have the same effect as fines for they ..."

4. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Melville Madison Bigelow (1893)
"127), that a bequest in trust to pay the income to such persons as a married woman should appoint, but not by way of anticipation, and in default of ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He condemned Monothelitism by anticipation. His style is careful, with metrical cadences. Its majestic rhythms and its sonorous closes have invested the ..."

6. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1899)
"... and its courts had no power to take testimony upon commission in anticipation of the trial, and much less in anticipation of the bringing of an action. ..."

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