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probability
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning" [syn: chance ] the quality of being probable [ant: improbability ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Probability \Prob`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Probabilities . [L. probabilitas: cf. F. probabilit['e].] The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being probable; likelihood 2 an event that is likely to occur 3 the relative likelihood of an event happening 4 (context mathematics English) a number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE conditional ▪ Those studies specified and estimated the conditional probability of leaving unemployment. ▪ The conditional probability of leaving the spell is also very small for men aged 55 and over compared to ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "quality of being probable," from Old French probabilite (14c.) and directly from Latin probabilitatem (nominative probabilitas ) "credibility, probability," from probabilis (see probable ). Meaning "something likely to be true" is from 1570s; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur. Probability is quantified as a number between 0 and 1 (where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty). The higher the probability of an event, the more certain that the event ...
Usage examples of probability.
Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.
The Internet and the news services were abuzz with speculation, and a few editorials were suggesting that maybe the Probability Assessment Unit had completed its job and needed to be scaled back.
But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.
The first was not surprising, considering the fact that Imer was in jail with a strong probability of being adjudged mentally unbalanced.
The antecedent probability of such evidence coming into being is never so very small, because there are lots of other, natural, hypotheses that explain it.
If the antecedent probability that a result is due to anything else than chance is very, very low, then even enormously improbable results will not overturn it.
One of these is the probability of the aortal tissues pressing upon the weapon relaxing their hold and allowing the blade to slip.
In all probability there was, according to the usual plan of Norman churches, a tower at the junction of the nave and transepts, and beyond this an apsidal choir.
In all probability I should have immediately left for Paris, but for a circumstance which astonished nobody but myself in the family of which I had become a member.
They would be recorded, in all probability, in the Avifauna Journal - a small publication of limited circulation which went to keen students of bird life.
Her beplumed hat floated in a pool of disfiguring water, her long suede gloves lay in a ditch and her white satin wedding slippers, alas, hung by their tiny heels at the top of a tree in a neighboring township, the only tree in the entire surrounding county, put there, in all probability, to catch and hold them for her.
Well, the medical evidence showed that there was nothing to rule out the probability of suicide, and although the pathologist thought the wound was too deep to have been self-inflicted, the coroner told the jury to disregard that and the inquest will be resumed on those lines, especially as the pathologist himself could find no rational significance in the depth of the wound and was forced to agree that if Bosey had fallen on the knife, that would explain matters.
This diplomatist came into the room with her, and after hearing all the details from my lips he said that in all probability the duke knew nothing about it.
That idea made me feel the deepest shame, yet, whenever I thought of it, I could not help admitting that such a supposition, however false, was not wanting in probability.
Only if the probability was very low that prospective tax cuts or new outlay initiatives would send the on-budget accounts into deficit, would unconditional initiatives appear prudent.