Associations to the word «Prior»

PRIOR, adjective. Advance; coming before

PRIOR, adjective. Former, previous

PRIOR, adverb. (colloquial) Previously.

PRIOR, noun. A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.

PRIOR, noun. (US slang) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record. [from 19th c.]

PRIOR, noun. (statistics) In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution. [from 20th c.]

PRIOR ART, noun. (legal) In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, noun. The knowledge that stems from previous experience.

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, noun. (legal) knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, noun. Knowledge before learning a subject, language, etc.

PRIOR PROBABILITY, noun. (statistics) The probability of an event obtained without the knowledge of occurrence of other events that bear on it.

PRIOR TO, preposition. (formal) before

PRIOR, noun. The head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot.

PRIOR, adjective. Earlier in time.