allowment

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted

   An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.

   • On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training."
   • The law concerning the control of the Capitol buildings, the allowment of the rooms for various purposes, and the like, is not clear.
2. 2

   The act of allowing.

   • And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church.
   • I have known a patent to be taken from a man after it was allowed, – between the allowment and the issue.
   • To encourage students by the allowment of pleasure and amusement," he says that he has already sent orders to New York for a spinning-machine of about one hundred spindles, an air pump, an electrical apparatus, etc.:
3. 3

   A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis…

   A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.

   • Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis.

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