English word anticipation comes from Latin anticipo (I surpass, excel.. I take or get before; anticipate.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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anticipo | Latin (lat) | I surpass, excel.. I take or get before; anticipate. |
anticipatio | Latin (lat) | Anticipation. Preconception. |
anticipation | English (en) | (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.. (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in [...] |