likelihood
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likelihood (countable and uncountable, plural likelihoods)
- The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
- In all likelihood the meeting will be cancelled.
- The likelihood is that the inflation rate will continue to rise.
- (statistics, probability theory) The probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
- Likeness, resemblance.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], chapter 3, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book:
- There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […] or between righteousness and reprobation.
- (archaic) Appearance, show, sign, expression.
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probability
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mathematical likelihood
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resemblance
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