ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overchance

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Overchance is an adjective meaning Occurring more than expected by mere chance or probability.

Meaning

Occurring more than expected by mere chance or probability.

More Meanings

  1. A likelihood that is greater than when all options are equally probable.

Example Sentences

At the second birth there is still an overchance in favor of a boy.
It was claimed that an overchance number of correct answers was scored.
Let us suppose that 29 licences having been correctly renewed, by some overchance the 30th gets out of phase.
He remarks cryptically that for reasons "too private to be discussed here" PS intimated to him "that in this particular study he would not aim at obtaining a high overchance result."

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