expectations

/ษ›kspษ›kหˆteษชสƒษ™nz/

IPA: /EH0 K S P EH0 K T EY1 SH AH0 N Z/

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    That which is expected or looked for.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.

  6. 6

    (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.

  7. 7

    The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

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