Allowment
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment. countable, uncountable
"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.""
- 2 The act of allowing. countable, uncountable
"And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church."
- 3 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. countable, uncountable
"Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis."
Example
More examples"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.""
Etymology
From allow + -ment.
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