Meaning of allowment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of allowing.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“On this point⟳ Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training."”

“The law concerning the control⟳ of the Capitol buildings, the allowment of the rooms for various purposes, and the like⟳, is not clear.”

“While being in the advance program⟳, the cadets receive⟳ an allowment from the government which amounts up to approximately sixty dollars a quarter. Out of this allowment the student must pay⟳ for his officers uniform which cost⟳ ninty dollars.”

“Our recommendations to the Claims Committee have⟳ varied from recommending full allowment of the claim⟳, partial allowment of the claim⟳ to no reimbursement for the claim⟳.”

“And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own⟳ conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church.”

“I have⟳ known a patent to be taken from a man after it was allowed, – between the allowment and the issue⟳.”

“To encourage⟳ students by the allowment of pleasure and amusement," he says that he has already sent orders to New York for a spinning-machine of about one hundred spindles, an air pump, an electrical apparatus, etc.:”

“These conditions have⟳ prevented that careful preparation of soil so essential to the allowment of good stands and easy after cultivation.”

“Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support⟳ and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis.”

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