1. (

• expectation ,
• outlook ,
• prospect ,

) belief about (or mental picture of) the future ;

2. (

• anticipation ,
• expectation

) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment ;

3. (

• expectation

) the feeling that something is about to happen ;

4. (

• arithmetic_mean ,
• first_moment ,
• expectation ,
• expected_value

) the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values ;