kemungkinan
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]mungkin (possibly, perhaps) + ke- -an
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /kəmuŋˈkinan/ [kə.muŋˈki.nan]
- Rhymes: -inan
- Syllabification: ke‧mung‧ki‧nan
Noun
[edit]kemungkinan (plural kemungkinan-kemungkinan)
- possibility
- likelihood:
- the probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.
- (statistics) the probability that some fixed outcome was generated by a random distribution with a specific parameter.
- (mathematics) odds: the ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening.
- Synonyms: kans, kecenderungan, peluang
Further reading
[edit]- “kemungkinan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.