uncertainty
/ʌnˈsɝtənti/ noun B1- Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- Something uncertain or ambiguous. · Near-synonym: uncertain (noun)· Some uncertainties remain; an especially salient uncertainty is the timing of their return trip.
- A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
Plural uncertainties
From the library
Uncertainty is worse than all.”
Uncertainty is still hope.” Then in a low voice Morrel added,—“This delay is not natural.
While he was thus agitated by gloomy uncertainties,—wretched waking dreams of grief,—the first rays of morning pierced his windows, and shone upon the pale blue paper on which he had just inscribed his justification of Providence.
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