Definizione monolingua

anticipation

anticipation (plural anticipations)

1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

   Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick.

2. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.

   He waited with great anticipation for Christmas to arrive.

3. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
4. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
5. (music) a non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord

Definizione dizionario anticipation

	anticipazione
	the act of anticipating
	Consideration of something beforehand.

	aspettativa
	Consideration of something beforehand.

anticipo

aspettazione

previsione

Altri significati:

(finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.

(rhetoric) Prolepsis.

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.