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Any advance payment of an obligation prior to the date payment is due, usually to save interest costs.

1. Accounting. Charges to income or future earnings before these earnings are realized.

2. Banking. Borrower's legal right, if allowed by a mortgage instrument, to repay the outstanding principal and interest on a loan, as when refinancing the loan at a lower rate. Also, deposit of funds for payment of an Acceptance prior to the maturity date, reducing the customer's liability.

noun

1. The condition of looking forward to something, especially with eagerness: expectance, expectancy, expectation. See surprise/expect.
2. Something expected: expectancy, expectation, prospect. See surprise/expect.

n

Definition: expectation
Antonyms: amazement, astonishment, despair, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder

n

Definition: readiness; forethought
Antonyms: doubt, unreadiness

In part-writing, an unaccented non-harmonic note that belongs to and is repeated in the harmony immediately following.

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The ability to look forward and judge correctly what is going to happen next. Anticipation is a skill; thus, a sports-person can learn to anticipate what team mates or opponents are about to do in certain situations. See also elective attention, perceptual anticipation, receptor anticipation.

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The performance of an act or obligation before it is legally due. In patent law, the publication of the existence of an invention that has already been patented or has a patent pending, which are grounds for denying a patent to an invention that has substantially the same structure and function as the earlier invention.

In the law of negligence, anticipation refers to the knowledge that there is a reasonable probability that the consequences of particular conduct of one individual will result in injury to others.

The anticipation of an invention also occurs if the later invention is merely an adaptation of an earlier patent, which would be obvious to a skilled person who need only exercise some mechanical skill to develop the same adaptation.

(or prediction)
The development of the nervous system through the evolution of species is characterized by increasing powers of anticipation — the ability to survive against nature and predators. Anticipatory behaviour is not initiated by stimuli, so a stimulus-response account of the behaviour of higher animals is essentially inadequate. Intelligent anticipation requires stored knowledge, and the ability to draw analogies from past situations, which may be in many ways different from the current situation. This ability is uniquely developed in humans. Its neural localization is essentially in the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, but it may be the case that damage to the frontal lobes produces personality changes such that the future is judged less important.

Anticipation allows organisms and societies to avoid danger before disaster strikes; it allows strategies to be devised and individual and communal plans to be made for overcoming nature and enemies, and for achieving goals. Such abilities are quite foreign to inanimate matter, and are beyond the capacity of many living things: anticipation requires a mind. Some would argue, however, that computers may reasonably be said to have the ability to anticipate and warn of situations and events, and hence to be 'mindful'.

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IN BRIEF: The process of waiting for something expectantly..

The anticipation was more exciting than the event.

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Quotes:

"We usually get what we anticipate." - Claude M. Bristol

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble." - Elbert Hubbard

"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting." - Samuel Johnson

"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them." - Samuel Johnson

"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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the phenomenon whereby the age of onset of a disease becomes earlier and the severity of disease symptoms increases with successive generations. It is common in disorders resulting from trinucleotide repeat mutations that increase in size through generations, such as Huntington's disease.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forventning, foregribelse

idioms:

• in anticipation of    i forventning om

Nederlands (Dutch)
verwachting, voorgevoel, het uitzien naar, het vóór zijn, het voorkomen

Français (French)
n. - anticipation, excitation, plaisir anticipé, attente, appréhension, empressement

idioms:

• in anticipation of    par anticipation, à l'avance, en prévision de, d'avance

Deutsch (German)
n. - Erwartung, Vorgefühl, Vorwegnahme

idioms:

• in anticipation of    in Erwartung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προσδοκία, προσμονή, πρόβλεψη (εξέλιξης), προεξόφληση, προαίσθημα, πρόνοια, προληπτικά μέτρα, (μουσ.) προήγηση, προανάκρουση

idioms:

• in anticipation of    εν όψει, εν αναμονή

Italiano (Italian)
anticipazione, previsione

idioms:

• in anticipation of    in attesa di

Português (Portuguese)
n. - antecipação (f), adiantamento (m), previsão (f), pressentimento (m)

idioms:

• in anticipation of    em adiantamento a, antecipadamente a

Русский (Russian)
ожидание, предчувствие

idioms:

• in anticipation of    в предвкушении

Español (Spanish)
n. - anticipación, previsión, esperanza

idioms:

• in anticipation of    de antemano, en espera de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förväntan, förkänsla

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
预期, 期望, 预期的事物, 预料, 预感, 预知

idioms:

• in anticipation of    期待着..., 预计到...

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 預期, 期望, 預期的事物, 預料, 預感, 預知

idioms:

• in anticipation of    期待著..., 預計到...

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 예상, 앞지르기

idioms:

• in anticipation of    을 예상하고

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 予期, 予想, 期待, 先手

idioms:

• in anticipation of    予期して, 見越して, 期待して

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) توقع, حدس, , مص‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ציפייה, הטרמה‬