Look up: uncertainty

1. Uncertainty
   Usually refers to risk or volatility.
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2. Uncertainty
   Conditions where there is no reliable data to help predict future events.
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3. uncertainty
   [n] - being unsettled or in doubt
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4. uncertainty
   It is impossible to know exactly where something is and where it is going. This is a fundamental law of nature has a major effect on quantum theory.
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5. Uncertainty
   Uncertainty: You may be uncertain why 'uncertainty' deserves a place in a medical dictionary but some would say that uncertainty is a key element in medicine. 'The core predicament of medicine -- the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult and being a part of a soc...
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6. uncertainty
   an expression of the magnitude of a possible deviation of a measured value from the true value Category: Electrical engineering and energy
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7. uncertainty
   uncertainness noun being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; `the uncertainty of the outcome`; `the precariousness of his income`
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8. uncertainty
   If outcomes will occur with a probability that cannot even be estimated, the decisionmaker faces uncertainty. Contrast risk. This meaning to uncertainty is attributed to Frank Knight, and is sometimes referred to as Knightian uncertainty. The decisionmaker can apply game theory even in such a circum...
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9. Uncertainty
   • (n.) The quality or state of being uncertain. • (n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
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10. Uncertainty
    Failure to know anything that may be relevant for an economic decision, such as future variables, details of a technology, or sales. In models, uncertainty usually appears as a random variable and corresponding probability density function. But in practice, most international models, especially of trade, assume certainty.
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11. uncertainty
    
    • being unsettled or in doubt
    • the state of being unsure of something
    
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12. Uncertainty
    Usually refers to risk or volatility.
    Found on http://www.oasismanagement.com/glossary/
    
    
13. Uncertainty
    `Uncertainty` is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including physics, philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, sociology, engineering, and information science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements already made, or to...
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