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Meaning of expectation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  expectation
      n 1: belief about (or mental picture of) the future [syn:
           {expectation}, {outlook}, {prospect}]
      2: anticipating with confidence of fulfillment [syn:
         {anticipation}, {expectation}]
      3: the feeling that something is about to happen
      4: the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the
         number of values [syn: {arithmetic mean}, {first moment},
         {expectation}, {expected value}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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