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Definition of favorable

Favorable
Favorable Fa"vor*a*ble, a. [Written also favourable.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.] 1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. --Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. --Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. --Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. --Sir W. Temple. 3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] --Spenser. -- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke.

Meaning of favorable from wikipedia

- asking leading questions. This prevents a lawyer from feeding answers to a favorable witness. An exception to this rule occurs if one side has called a witness...
- Entropy is a scientific concept that is most commonly ****ociated with a state of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used...
- minimax estimator should be a Bayes estimator with respect to a least favorable prior distribution of θ{\displaystyle \theta \,\!}. To demonstrate this...
- achieve a minimum of the Gibbs free energy. A quantitative measure of the favorability of a given reaction under these conditions is the change ΔG (sometimes...
- by some publishers who use Metacritic scores as a way to leverage more favorable terms for the publisher or deny developers bonuses should they not reach...
- to mani****te by limiting early screenings to critics inclined to be favorable, among other tactics. Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998...
- buttons are examples, as are small objects given as gifts, due to the favorable ****ociations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of tiny items...
- database composed of Familiarity and Favorability data as the quantitative basis of its system. Familiarity and Favorability scores are analyzed in the context...
- options for which the probability of a favorable outcome is known, over an option for which the probability of a favorable outcome is unknown. The effect was...
- individuals (all included under the "ace umbrella") use the terms positive, favorable, neutral or indifferent, averse, or repulsed to describe how they feel...