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.
The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.