probability

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The state of being probable.

   “Thus, firſt Traditions were a proof alone; / Cou’d we be certain ſuch they were ſo known: / But ſince ſome Flaws in long deſcent may be, / They make not Truth but Probability.”

2. isim An event that is likely to occur.

   “These waters wash from the rocks such glistering tinctures, that the ground in some places seemeth as guilded, that better iudgements then ours might haue been perswaded, they contained more then probabilities.”

3. isim The relative likelihood of an event happening.

   “Hoyle said that the probability of life originating on Earth is no greater than the chance that a hurricane, sweeping through a scrapyard, would have the luck to assemble a Boeing 747.”

4. isim A number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening.

   “The probability of an event A occurring is denoted P(A).”