expectation   (Sound)

The noun expectation has 4 senses

• expectation, outlook, prospect -- (belief about (or mental picture of) the future)


• anticipation, expectation -- (anticipating with confidence of fulfillment)


• expectation -- (the feeling that something is about to happen)


• arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value -- (the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values)