allowment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training.""
- "The law concerning the control of the Capitol buildings, the allowment of the rooms for various purposes, and the like, is not clear."
- "While being in the advance program, the cadets receive an allowment from the government which amounts up to approximately sixty dollars a quarter. Out of this allowment the student must pay for his officers uniform which cost ninty dollars."
- "Our recommendations to the Claims Committee have varied from recommending full allowment of the claim, partial allowment of the claim to no reimbursement for the claim."
- "And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church."
- "I have known a patent to be taken from a man after it was allowed, – between the allowment and the issue."