Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
the condition upon which something is presumed
the belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true
the act of presuming, or something presumed
An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.