Usually means: Initial assumption before data analysis.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prior, prior: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prior, prior: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prior, prior: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prior: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prior: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prior, prior: Wordnik
  7. prior: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Prior, prior: Wiktionary
  9. prior: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prior: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prior: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prior: Dictionary.com
  13. prior (adj.), prior (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prior: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prior (Stargate), Prior (disambiguation), Prior (surname), Prior: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prior: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prior: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prior: Rhymezone
  19. prior: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prior: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Prior: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. prior: Free Dictionary
  23. prior: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. prior: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prior-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. prior(s): Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. prior: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prior: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. PRIOR: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prior: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prior: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prior: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. prior: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See priorate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
adjective:  More important or significant.
adjective:  (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adverb:  Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.
noun:  (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
noun:  (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
noun:  (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
noun:  (Christianity) A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
noun:  In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
noun:  The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
noun:  The head friar of a house of friars.
noun:  The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
noun:  An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
noun:  (historical)
noun:  A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
noun:  The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
noun:  (business) The head of a company.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for someone employed by a prior.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.

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