Anticipation

Anticipation

Anticipation can refer to:
* Forethought
* "Anticipation" (album), a 1971 album by Carly Simon.
* "Anticipation" (song), the title track of this album.
* Anticipation (artificial intelligence), the concept of an agent making decisions
* Anticipation (convention), the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Montréal in 2009
* Anticipation (emotion), an emotion involving pleasure in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait.
* Anticipation (finance), where debts are paid off early.
* Anticipation (genetics), where the severity of a genetic disorder increases with each generation.
* Anticipation (Lewis Black album), a 2008 comedy album by Lewis Black.
* Anticipation (music), a type of nonchord tone.
* "Anticipation" (video game), a 1988 game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
* Anticipation (Guinness) a 1994-1995 advertising campaign for Guinness.
* In the U.S., when one prior art reference or event discloses all the features of a claim, see novelty (patent)


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  • anticipation — [ ɑ̃tisipasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XVIe; « usurpation » 1437; lat. anticipatio → anticiper 1 ♦ Exécution anticipée d un acte. Régler une dette par anticipation (cf. D avance). ♢ Inform. Procédé destiné à améliorer les performances de l unité de traitement… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • anticipation — ANTICIPATION. s. f. Action par laquelle on anticipe. Servez vous contre lui de la voie d anticipation, du moyen d anticipation. f♛/b] On appelle Lettres d anticipation, Des Lettres de Chancellerie, pour anticiper un Appel.[b]Anticipation, terme… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • anticipation — an·ti·ci·pa·tion /an ˌti sə pā shən/ n: the knowledge or use of an invention in the U.S. or the patenting or describing of the invention in a publication in the U.S. or a foreign country before the discovery by a patent applicant ◇ Case law has… …   Law dictionary

  • Anticipation — An*tic i*pa tion, n. [L. anticipatio: cf. F. anticipation.] 1. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. [1913 Webster] So shall my anticipation prevent your… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Anticipation — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Anticipation Desarrolladora(s) Rare Distribuidora(s) Nintendo Compositor(es) David Wise …   Wikipedia Español

  • Anticipation — (v. lat.), 1) Vorausnahme; 2) Vorausnahme von Abgaben der Unterthanen durch eine in Verlegenheiten verwickelte Regierung; 3) (Hdlgsw.), Vorschüsse, die ein Commissionär auf Waaren, die er in Consignation hat, deren Eigenthümer macht (Zahlung… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Anticipation — Anticipation, Subst. von anticipiren, etwas voraussetzen, bei Urtheilen, Schlüssen und wissenschaftlichen Systemen, so beruht z.B. die Alchymie auf der Anticipation eines Urelementes. In financieller Hinsicht bezeichnet Anticipation den… …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • anticipation — Anticipation. s. f. v. Action par laquelle on anticipe. Servez vous contre luy de la voye, du moyen d anticipation. Lettres d anticipation, Ce sont des Lettres de Chancellerie, pour anticiper l appel …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • anticipation — [n1] expectation apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, looking forward, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust;… …   New thesaurus

  • anticipation — et prevention, Anteoccupatio, Anticipatio. Lettres d anticipation, Compendium codicillare prouocationis …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

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