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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of mathematics that studies the likelihood of occurrence of random events in order to predict the behavior of defined systems.
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- noun mathematics The
mathematical study of probability (thelikelihood ofoccurrence ofrandom events in order topredict thebehavior of definedsystems ).
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- noun the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities
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