how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | a risk involving danger |
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible |
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another |
measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements | a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances |
a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance | the possibility of future success |
musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | |
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | |
a statute in draft before it becomes law | |
a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | |