Definitions for surprisal
sərˈpraɪ zəlsur·prisal

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surprise, surprisalnoun

   the act of surprising someone

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surprisalnoun

   A surprise attack or ambush; a sudden or unexpected assault.

2. surprisalnoun

   A sudden coming-upon someone or something unexpectedly or unawares.

3. surprisalnoun

   A surprising event or occurrence.

4. surprisalnoun

   The feeling caused by being surprised; surprise, shock, amazement.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Surprisal, Surprisenoun

   Etymology: surprise, French; from the verb.

   1. The act of taking unawares; the state of being taken unawares.

   Parents should mark heedfully the witty excuses of their children, especially at suddains and surprisals; but rather mark than pamper them Henry Wotton.

   This let him know,
   Lest, wilfully transgressing, he pretend
   Suprisal, unadmonish’d, unforewarn’d. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   I set aside the taking of St. Jago and St. Domingo in Hispaniola, as surprizes rather than encounters. Francis Bacon.

   This strange surprisal put the knight
   And wrathful squire into a fright. Hudibras.

   There is a vast difference between them, as vast as between inadvertency and deliberation, between surprize and set purpose. South.

   2. A dish, I suppose, which has nothing in it.

   Few care for carving trifles in disguise,
   Or that fantastick dish some call surprise. William King, Cookery.

   3. Sudden confusion or perplexity.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surprisal

   In information theory, the information content, self-information, surprisal, or Shannon information is a basic quantity derived from the probability of a particular event occurring from a random variable. It can be thought of as an alternative way of expressing probability, much like odds or log-odds, but which has particular mathematical advantages in the setting of information theory. The Shannon information can be interpreted as quantifying the level of "surprise" of a particular outcome. As it is such a basic quantity, it also appears in several other settings, such as the length of a message needed to transmit the event given an optimal source coding of the random variable. The Shannon information is closely related to entropy, which is the expected value of the self-information of a random variable, quantifying how surprising the random variable is "on average". This is the average amount of self-information an observer would expect to gain about a random variable when measuring it.The information content can be expressed in various units of information, of which the most common is the "bit" (more correctly called the shannon), as explained below.

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1. surprisal

   Surprisal, in the context of information theory, refers to the amount of information added upon receiving a piece of unexpected or surprising data. It is also known as self-information. It measures how surprising a particular outcome is, given the probability distribution. The fuller a bit of information, the greater its surprisal value.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Surprisalnoun

   the act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise

2. Etymology: [See Surprise, n.]

Matched Categories

1. • Disruption

How to pronounce surprisal?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of surprisal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of surprisal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=surprisal
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Surprisal
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=surprisal
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprisal
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surprisal