high probability

collocation in English

meaningsofhighandprobability

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high
adjective
uk
/haɪ/
us
/haɪ/
(especially of things that are not living) being a large distance from top to bottom or a long way above the ground, or having the stated distance from top ...
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probability
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌprɒb.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/ˌprɑː.bəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the level of possibility of something happening or ...
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(Definition ofhighandprobabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhigh probability

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It follows that trees with life history strategies characterized by ahighprobabilityof experiencing episodic directional stress should exhibit more extreme buttress formation.
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Treatment just before the antibodies are triggered results in a veryhighprobabilityof selecting a drug-resistant population.
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If the meaning distinction has ahighprobabilityof being lexicalized in many languages, then this provides some evidence that the distinction is important.
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As a result, there is ahighprobabilitythat teams will be distributed.
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This algorithm determines the original planted partition withhighprobability.
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The hard part is to show that it is easy not just withhighprobabilitybut in expectation.
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The exposure to radiation in space for such a period has ahighprobabilityof sterilizing all but the largest rocky bodies.
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Thus, the predictors of age of first production varied across low probability versushighprobabilitywords.
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Although word correspondences acquired by this step are sometimes false translations of each other, these words appear in corresponding sentences withhighprobability.
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Should you have a lot of little pieces, so there's ahighprobabilityof hitting, but it won't be as harmful to the object hit?
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The lexical parameter, reflecting the contribution of long-term lexical knowledge, was computed as the difference between the serial recall of words andhighprobabilitynonwords.
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The density plot indicates that a bird either has ahighprobabilityof being campylobacter-positive or the bird will be campylobacter-negative.
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This implies that new escape components will be created withhighprobability.
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First, if a good par t is produced, there ishighprobabilitythat the next par t produced will be good, and vice versa.
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In both the subcritical and supercritical regions the size of the largest component has an asymptotic value which it achieves withhighprobability.
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Moreover, if d(n) = (1), both statements hold with veryhighprobability.
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Completeness of the algorithm simply means that, when picking formulas from the nth space, the answer is 'unsatisfiable' withhighprobability, too.
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