Anticipation
Anticipation can have several meanings:
- Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait.
- Anticipation (medicine) is where the severity of a genetic disorder increases with each generation.
- Anticipation (music) is a type of nonchord tone.
- Anticipation (finance) is where debts are paid off early.
- Anticipation (artificial intelligence) is the concept of an agent making decisions based on predictions, expectations, or beliefs about the future.