1. Belief about (or mental picture of) the future
   - outlook, prospect 
2. Anticipating with confidence of fulfilment
   - anticipation 
3. The feeling that something is about to happen 
4. The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
   - arithmetic mean, first moment, expected value

Derived forms: expectations

See also: expect

Type of: belief, feeling, hopefulness, mean, mean value

Encyclopedia: Expectation

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