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Noun

  1. the state of being probable; likelihood
  2. an event that is likely to occur
  3. the relative likelihood of an event happening
  4. a number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening


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Category:Probability theory

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Probability \Prob`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Probabilities. [L.
probabilitas: cf. F. probabilit['e].]
[1913 Webster]
1. The quality or state of being probable; appearance of
reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption;
likelihood.
[1913 Webster]

Probability is the appearance of the agreement or
disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of
proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears
for the most part to be so. --Locke.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which is or appears probable; anything that has the
appearance of reality or truth.
[1913 Webster]

The whole life of man is a perpetual comparison of
evidence and balancing of probabilities.
--Buckminster.
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We do not call for evidence till antecedent
probabilities fail. --J. H.
Newman.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Math.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the
doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of
favorable chances to the whole number of chances,
favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Likeliness; credibleness; likelihood; chance.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet probability
n 1: 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]
2: the quality of being probable [ant: improbability]
Moby Dictionary
a thing for , accidentality , actuarial calculation ,
actuarial prediction , adventitiousness , affinity , aftertime ,
afteryears , anticipation , apocalypse , aptitude , aptness ,
bare possibility , bent , best bet , bias , break , by-and-by , cast ,
casualness , certainty , chance , chances , conatus , conceivability ,
conceivableness , conduciveness , confidence , contemplation ,
contingency , course ahead , crystal ball , delight , destiny ,
determinism , diathesis , disposition , distant future , eagerness ,
even chance , eventuality , expectancy , expectation , fate ,
favorable prospect , feeling for , flukiness , foreboding , forecast ,
forecasting , foreshowing , foresight , foretelling , fortuitousness ,
fortuity , fortune , forward look , future , future tense , futurism ,
futurity , gamble , good chance , good fortune , good luck ,
good opportunity , good possibility , guesswork , hap , happenstance ,
happy chance , heedless hap , hereafter , hope , how they fall ,
immediate future , immediate prospect , imminence , improbability ,
inclination , indeterminacy , indeterminateness , law of averages ,
leaning , liability , liableness , likelihood , likeliness , liking ,
lot , luck , main chance , moira , near future , obligation , odds ,
odds-on , odds-on chance , off chance , offing , omen , opportunity ,
outlook , outside chance , outside hope , penchant , possibility ,
possibleness , posteriority , potential , potentiality , prediction ,
predilection , predisposition , prefiguration , prefigurement ,
prefiguring , prejudice , presage , presaging , presentiment ,
preshowing , presignifying , presumption , principle of indeterminacy ,
problematicness , proclivity , prognosis , prognostication , project ,
promise , proneness , propensity , prophecy , prophesying , prospect ,
prospectus , random sample , readiness , reliance , remote possibility ,
risk , run of luck , sensitivity to , serendipity , small hope ,
soft spot , soothsay , speculation , sporting chance ,
statistical prediction , statistical probability , sure bet ,
sure thing , susceptibility , tendency , the attainable , the breaks ,
the feasible , the future , the morrow , the possible ,
the sweet by-and-by , theory of probability , thinkability ,
thinkableness , thought , time ahead , time just ahead , time to come ,
tomorrow , tropism , turn , twist , unastonishment , uncertainty ,
uncertainty principle , vaticination , virtuality , warp , weakness ,
well-grounded hope , what is possible , what may be , what might be ,
whatever comes , willingness


PROBABILITY. That which is likely to happen; that which is most consonant to reason; for example, there is a strong probability that a man of a good moral character, and who has heretofore been remarkable for truth, will, when examined as a witness under oath, tell the truth; and, on the contrary, that a man who has been guilty of perjury, will not, under the same circumstances, tell the truth; the former will, therefore, be entitled to credit, while the latter will not.
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