What is the meaning of expectation?

Belief about (or mental picture of) the future.
- synonyms: outlook, prospect
Anticipating with confidence of fulfillment.
- synonyms: anticipation
The feeling that something is about to happen.
The sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values.
- synonyms: arithmetic mean, first moment, expected value

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