probability
IPA: prɑbʌbˈɪɫʌti
noun
- The state of being probable.
- An event that is likely to occur.
- The relative likelihood of an event happening.
- (mathematics) A number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening.
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Examples of "probability" in Sentences
- So, the probability is my child will opt for the Jesus movement.
- Note that it does not mean it will happen, just that the probability is approaching 1 or unity.
- Two certified financial planners and a finance professor have come up with a system that manages what they call the "probability of failure."
- As long as the probability is not zero, then if the universe is spatially infinite we should expect life to arise somewhere in the infinite universe ….
- The world has not shown me that understanding of elementary probability is widespread, so I worry that these kind of tools will be misused/misunderstood.
- Embracing Some Risk Two certified financial planners and a finance professor have come up with a system that manages what they call the "probability of failure."
- In Uttar Pradesh, a woman has one in 42 lifetime risks of maternal death, the probability is just one in 500 in Kerala, the report says, according to PTI reports.
- It is a doubt founded on a _positive_ opinion against the existence of the law, or its applicability to the case in point, an opinion fraught with probability, _solid, comparative, practical probability_.
- Whether both mutations happen in one individual, or one in a parent and the next in that individual's offspring, without the benefit of selection to expand the first mutation within the population, the probability is the same.
- So, Hacking argues, what we call probability was not an object of thought that existed in embryo to become fully developed when some social need or technological opportunity encouraged mathematicians to study it more carefully.
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