uncertainty
//ʌnˈsɜːtənti//
Forms
- Plural
- uncertainties
Definitions
1.Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- It's a full circle. Over the past 43 years, RAIL has reported on how the railways have gone from uncertainty under government control to sectorisation, privatisation, and back to uncertainty under government control.
2.Something uncertain or ambiguous.
3.A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3824
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English uncerteynte; equivalent to un- + certainty or uncertain + -ty.