| expectation | |
| 1. n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. | |
| 2. n. That which is expected or looked for. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| 4. n. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. | |
| 5. n. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment. | |
| 6. n. (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean. | |
| 7. n. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. | |
