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排反 (はいはん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

排はい反はん

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Meanings

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mutually exclusive

Technical term in statistics and probability theory. Describes events that cannot occur simultaneously.

赤あかが出でる事じ象しょうと青あおが出でる事じ象しょうは、同どう時じには起おこら

Kanji

排repudiate, exclude, expel
反anti-

Related words

独どく立りつ
独立 (independent) is a different concept: independent events can occur together, while 排反 events cannot.

Etymology

Compound of 排 (exclude, reject) and 反 (opposite, against), literally 'exclude-oppose'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is used in modern technical contexts.

ない

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排はい

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The event of getting red and the event of getting blue are mutually exclusive because they cannot occur at the same time.