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"the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"nouna measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
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"for a while mutiny seemed a probability" "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost"nounthe quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable eventOpposite:type of:
Definition that contains probability
- well indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- risk the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- risk the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- easily indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- unbelievable having a probability too low to inspire belief
- unlikely having a probability too low to inspire belief
- statistics a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters
- pascal French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
- resonance an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation
- likelihood the probability of a specified outcome