uncertainty
IPA: ʌnsˈɝtʌnti
noun
- (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
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Examples of "uncertainty" in Sentences
- The introspection begins in his uncertainty.
- It's a state of uncertainty and bewilderment.
- That's the uncertainty in the measured value.
- The uncertainty of the measurment is quite large.
- Uncertainty may be either pernicious or propitious.
- The area is involved in the management of uncertainty.
- What vacillation and uncertainty are you referring to
- The coherent state realizes the minimum of uncertainty.
- For example, we use the term uncertainty all the time in science.
- This uncertainty is a big deterrent to traders eyeing Indian bourses.
- The measurement of information is thus the measurement of the uncertainty.
- Soft despotism breeds fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the general populace.
- Instead, he spoke to reporters a day later, and told them he was resigning because of what he termed uncertainty with the ownership situation.
- I also think that many Christians are so allergic to uncertainty that they label uncertainty (or "doubt") as flat "unbelief" (and therefore unfaithfulness).
- This uncertainty is the book's strength - although I wish that there were some note at the beginning or end to explain where fiction and history live in the story.
- Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that NBC has indicated that the long-running sudser may not be safe beyond 2009 as well as declining ratings and the fact that current storylines are … well, in a word, bad.
- Who wants to accept the fact that we are going to have a period of extreme uncertainty for some time into the future, and that investor confidence in our country has, and will, decline as long as this uncertainty is there?
- "Looking beyond short term uncertainty however, it is our firm belief that we have proved our ability to deal with unfavorable market fundamentals, and we believe we are poised to benefit from any future recovery in dry bulk shipping and continue our growth."
- The next few hours were for me fraught with fearful anxiety and uncertainty, -- yes, _uncertainty_, -- for (to my shame, let it be recorded) I actually debated in my own mind whether or not to desert these unfortunate boys of mine, who could not themselves escape the threatened danger.
- But our being left at this uncertainty is an intimation that these things are to be understood spiritually, and that what is principally meant is that there is an exact and just proportion observed by Infinite Wisdom in modelling the gospel church, which though now we cannot discern we shall when we come to heaven.
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