expectation (EN)

noun

noun “expectation”

1. the belief that something is likely to occur
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   The children's eyes gleamed with expectation of ice cream after dinner.
2. (usually in the plural) the hope for a positive outcome
   The children had high expectations for the trip to the amusement park.
3. (in the plural) a strong beliefs regarding what should happen
   The new software did not meet the expectations we had.
4. in statistics, the average value predicted over many trials
   The expectation of rolling a die is 3.5, since it's the average of all possible outcomes (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) over a large number of rolls.