allowments

Noun

allowment (countable and uncountable, plural allowments)

1. An amount of money or resources that someone is allotted; an allotment.
   • On this point Dr. Woodward says: “For the lower grades a daily allowment of one hour for drawing, modelling, cutting, pasting, gluing, and sewing would be enough for positive manual training."1887, The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association (U.S.)
2. The act of allowing.
   • And therefore they obteined the allowment of God and their own conscience , and the commendation of all godly insnne, and of the whole church.1570, A Postil, Or Orderly Disposing of Certeine Epistles, page 334
3. A mapping of a hypothesis to the set of arguments that support or reject that hypothesis weighted by the probability of the hypothesis given each argument.
   • Its algebraic part is discussed as a body of arguments which contains an allocation of support and an allowment of possibility for each hypothesis.1995, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager, Advances in Intelligent Computing - IPMU '94