English Explanatory Dictionary

allowment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
  2. The act of allowing.
  3. A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.

Word forms

allowment allowments

Etymology

From allow + -ment.

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