The outcome or result of a process or act.
The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
A decision reached after careful thought.
An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
The end, finish, close or last part of something.
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
The arithmetic mean.
The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
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.
That which is expected or looked for.