surprisal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A surprise attack or ambush; a sudden or unexpected assault.

   “Their chiefe attempts are by Stratagems, trecheries, or surprisals.”

2. isim A sudden coming-upon someone or something unexpectedly or unawares.

   “How to secure the lady from surprisal”

3. isim A surprising event or occurrence.
4. isim The feeling caused by being surprised; surprise, shock, amazement.
5. isim An information measure as equal in bits (binary digits) to the base-2 log of 1 over the probability, with the result that the number of choices equals 2ⁿ where n is the number of bits.