Prior

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.

   “His prior residence was smaller than his current one.”

2. sıfat More important or significant.
3. sıfat Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
4. zarf Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.

   “The doctor had known three months prior.”

5. isim A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
6. isim In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.

   “During each of these touchpoints, I'm asking myself where and how my thesis on each holding could be wrong. I'm checking each data point as it comes in against my priors. I'm comparing management behavior to what I would be doing if I were in their shoes.”

7. isim A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.

   “And a little later we get the routine report on his prints from Washington, and he's got a prior back in Indiana, attempted hold-up six years ago.”

8. isim In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.

   “It is not yet an hundred yere a goe, ſince that ſame mayſter doctour was butler in the ſame houſe, whereof I was maiſter and praiour: […]”

9. isim The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
10. isim The head friar of a house of friars.
11. isim The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
12. isim An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
13. isim A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
14. isim The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
15. isim A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
16. isim The head of a company.
17. özel isim A surname originating as an occupation for someone employed by a prior.
18. özel isim An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.