allowment
The English word “allowment” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
- The act of allowing.
- 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.
Etymology
From allow + -ment.
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