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Approbate
Approbate Ap"pro*bate, a. [L. approbatus, p. p. of approbare to approve.] Approved. [Obs.] --Elyot.
Approbate
Approbate Ap"pro*bate, v. t. To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. --Sir W. Hamilton. Note: This word is obsolete in England, but is occasionally heard in the United States, chiefly in a technical sense for license; as, a person is approbated to preach; approbated to keep a public house. --Pickering (1816).
Approbative
Approbative Ap"pro*ba*tive, a. [Cf. F. approbatif.] Approving, or implying approbation. --Milner.
Approbativeness
Approbativeness Ap"pro*ba*tive*ness, n. 1. The quality of being approbative. 2. (Phren.) Love of approbation.
Approbator
Approbator Ap"pro*ba`tor, n. [L.] One who approves. [R.]
Approbatory
Approbatory Ap"pro*ba`to*ry, a. Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. --Sheldon.
Archosargus or Diplodus probatocephalus
Sheepshead Sheeps"head`, n. [So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep.] (Zo["o]l.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other fishes, as the butterfish, the fresh-water drumfish, the parrot fish, the porgy, and the moonfish.
Calculus of probabilities
Calculus Cal"cu*lus, n.; pl. Calculi. [L, calculus. See Calculate, and Calcule.] 1. (Med.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. 2. (Math.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. Barycentric calculus, a method of treating geometry by defining a point as the center of gravity of certain other points to which co["e]fficients or weights are ascribed. Calculus of functions, that branch of mathematics which treats of the forms of functions that shall satisfy given conditions. Calculus of operations, that branch of mathematical logic that treats of all operations that satisfy given conditions. Calculus of probabilities, the science that treats of the computation of the probabilities of events, or the application of numbers to chance. Calculus of variations, a branch of mathematics in which the laws of dependence which bind the variable quantities together are themselves subject to change. Differential calculus, a method of investigating mathematical questions by using the ratio of certain indefinitely small quantities called differentials. The problems are primarily of this form: to find how the change in some variable quantity alters at each instant the value of a quantity dependent upon it. Exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of exponents. Imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations of real or imaginary quantities by the use of the imaginary symbols and quantities of algebra. Integral calculus, a method which in the reverse of the differential, the primary object of which is to learn from the known ratio of the indefinitely small changes of two or more magnitudes, the relation of the magnitudes themselves, or, in other words, from having the differential of an algebraic expression to find the expression itself.
Comprobate
Comprobate Com"pro*bate, v. i. [L. comprobatus, p. p. of comprobare, to approve wholly.] To agree; to concur. [Obs.] --Sir T. Elyot.
Comprobation
Comprobation Com`pro*ba"tion, n. [L. comprobatio.] 1. Joint attestation; proof. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 2. Approbation. [Obs.] --Foxe.
Court of Probate
Probate Pro"bate, a. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record. Probate Court, or Court of Probate, a court for the probate of wills. Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will. [Eng.]
Disapprobatory
Disapprobatory Dis*ap"pro*ba`to*ry, a. Containing disapprobation; serving to disapprove.
Improbable
Improbable Im*prob"a*ble, a. [L. improbabilis; pref. im- not + probabilis probable: cf. F. improbable. See Probable.] Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover. --Milton. -- Im*prob"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prob"a*bly, adv.
Improbableness
Improbable Im*prob"a*ble, a. [L. improbabilis; pref. im- not + probabilis probable: cf. F. improbable. See Probable.] Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover. --Milton. -- Im*prob"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prob"a*bly, adv.
Improbably
Improbable Im*prob"a*ble, a. [L. improbabilis; pref. im- not + probabilis probable: cf. F. improbable. See Probable.] Not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover. --Milton. -- Im*prob"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prob"a*bly, adv.
Improbate
Improbate Im"pro*bate, v. t. [L. improbatus, p. p. of improbare to disapprove; pref. im- not + probare to approve.] To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]
Improbation
Improbation Im`pro*ba"tion, n. [L. improbatio.] 1. The act of disapproving; disapprobation. 2. (Scots Law) The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. --Bell.
Improbative
Improbative Im"pro*ba*tive, Improbatory Im"pro*ba`to*ry, a. Implying, or tending to, improbation.
Improbatory
Improbative Im"pro*ba*tive, Improbatory Im"pro*ba`to*ry, a. Implying, or tending to, improbation.
Onus probandi
Onus O"nus, n. [L.] A burden; an obligation. Onus probandi[L.], obligation to furnish evidence to prove a thing; the burden of proof.
Probabiliorism
Probabiliorism Prob`a*bil"i*o*rism, n. The doctrine of the probabiliorists.
Probabiliorist
Probabiliorist Prob`a*bil"i*o*rist, n. [From L. probabilior, compar. of probabilis probable.] (Casuistry) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.
Probabilism
Probabilism Prob"a*bil*ism, n. [Cf. F. probabilisme.] The doctrine of the probabilists.
Probabilist
Probabilist Prob"a*bil*ist, n. [Cf. F. probabilists.] 1. One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions. 2. (Casuistry) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.
Probable
Probable Prob"a*ble, a. [L. probabilis, fr. probare to try, approve, prove: cf. F. probable. See Prove, and cf. Provable.] 1. Capable of being proved. [Obs.] 2. Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it. --South. I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. --Bp. Wilkins.
Probable cause
3. Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. --Blackstone. Probable cause (Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded. Probable error (of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3[sec] is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3[sec] are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy.
Probable error
3. Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. --Blackstone. Probable cause (Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded. Probable error (of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3[sec] is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3[sec] are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy.
Probable error
Error Er"ror, n. [OF. error, errur, F. erreur, L. error, fr. errare to err. See Err.] 1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. --B. Jonson. 2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error. 3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. H? judgment was often in error, though his candor remained unimpaired. --Bancroft. 4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. --Ps. xix. 12. 5. (Math.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. 6. (Mensuration) (a) The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. (b) The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error. 7. (Law.) A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact. 8. (Baseball) A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base. Law of error, or Law of frequency of error (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity. Probable error. (Mensuration) See under Probable. Writ of error (Law), an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court. --Bouvier. Burrill. Syn: Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See Blunder.
Probacy
Probacy Pro"ba*cy, n. [See Probate.] Proof; trial. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Probal
Probal Pro"bal, a. Approved; probable. [Obs.] --Shak.

Meaning of PROBA from wikipedia

- PROBA (Project for On-Board Autonomy), renamed PROBA-1, is a Belgian satellite technology demonstration mission launched atop an Indian Polar Satellite...
- Proba may refer to: people Faltonia Betitia Proba, fourth-century Latin poet Anicia Faltonia Proba, her niece and the recipient of letters from Saint Augustine...
- Proba-3 is a dual probe technological demonstration mission by the European Space Agency devoted to high precision formation flying to achieve scientific...
- PROBA-V, or PROBA-Vegetation (the V standing for vegetation and not the Roman numeral for 5), is a satellite in the European Space Agency's PROBA series...
- PROBA-2 is the second satellite in the European Space Agency's series of PROBA low-cost satellites that are being used to validate new spacecraft technologies...
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- the genus Proba: Proba aeruginata (Bergroth, 1910) c g Proba californica (Knight, 1968) i c g b Proba distanti (Atkinson, 1890) i c g b Proba elquiensis...
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