surprisal (English, noun)
expansion: surprisal (countable and uncountable, plural surprisals)
Senses:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A surprise attack or ambush; a sudden or unexpected assault.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
glosses: A sudden coming-upon someone or something unexpectedly or unawares.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
glosses: A surprising event or occurrence.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
glosses: The feeling caused by being surprised; surprise, shock, amazement.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
glosses: An information measure as equal in bits (binary digits) to the base-2 log of 1 over the probability, with the result that the number of choices equals 2ⁿ where n is the number of bits.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: surprisals
tags: plural