| 单词 | law of averages |
| 释义 | law of averagesSEE SYNONYMS FOR law of averages ON THESAURUS.COM nouna statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences. Informal. the principle that, in the long run, probability as naively conceived will operate and influence any one occurrence. Words nearby law of averagesLawndale, lawn mower, lawn party, lawn sleeves, lawn tennis, law of averages, law of conservation, law of contiguity, law of contradiction, law of cosines, law of definite composition Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for law of averageslaw of averages noun(popularly) the expectation that a possible event is bound to occur regularly with a frequency approximating to its probability, as in the (actually false) exampleafter five heads in a row the law of averages makes tails the better bet Compare law of large numbers Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with law of averageslaw of averages The idea that probability will influence all occurrences in the long term, that one will neither win nor lose all of the time. For example, If it rains every day this week, by the law of averages we're bound to get a sunny day soon. This colloquial term is a popular interpretation of a statistical principle, Bernoulli's theorem, formulated in the late 1600s. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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