expectation
Significado (Inglês)
- (countable, uncountable) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
- (countable, uncountable) That which is expected or looked for.
- (countable, uncountable) That which is expected or looked for.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
- (countable, uncountable) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
- (countable, uncountable) The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
- (colloquial, countable, uncountable) The arithmetic mean.
- (countable, rare, uncountable) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Conceitos
Sinônimos
looking-for
emotion
first moment
mental estimate
average value
hope for
Traduções
Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
Etimologia (Inglês)
From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.
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