Probability Definition

prŏbə-bĭlĭ-tē
probabilities
noun
probabilities
The quality or state of being probable; likelihood.
Webster's New World
Something probable.
Webster's New World
The likelihood that a given event will occur.
Little probability of rain tonight.
American Heritage
The ratio of the number of times something will probably occur to the total number of possible occurrences.
Webster's New World
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idiom
in all probability
  • Most probably; very likely.
American Heritage
in all probability
  • very likely
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Probability

Noun

Singular:
probability
Plural:
probabilities

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Origin of Probability

  • From Latin probabilitas (“probability, credibility"), from probabilis (“probable, credible"); see probable.

    From Wiktionary

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Probability Sentence Examples

  • What reason was there for assuming any probability of an uprising in the city?

  • They claim probability - moral certainty - mathematical certainty.

  • Probability is an entirely different issue.

  • The second part of the Laws of Thought contained a corresponding attempt to discover a general method in probabilities, which should enable us from the given probabilities of any system of events to determine the consequent probability of any other event logically connected with the given events.

  • It is true that in Roman Catholicism, in medieval as in modern times, the working of miracles has been ascribed to its saints; but the character of most of these miracles is such as to lack the a priori probability which has been claimed for the Scripture miracles.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRO

Words Ending With

YTYITY

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Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

Starts With P & Ends With YStarts With PR & Ends With YStarts With P & Ends With TY

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With P11 Letter Words Ending With Y