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expectation

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expectation [‚ek‚spek′tā·shən]
(mathematics)


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While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.
All he can do is to inform his captain of what is going on so that he may try to remedy it by a counter-mine, and then stand his ground in fear and expectation of the moment when he will fly up to the clouds without wings and descend into the deep against his will.
If our expectation of advantage be tempered in this way, we may succeed in accomplishing the essential part of our schemes.
 
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