Definitions

1. 1.anticipation (the act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order)
2. 2.anticipation (an anticipatory sign)
3. 3.anticipation (something not in accordance with the flow of time)
4. 4.anticipation, presupposition (hasty notion, intuitive preconception)
5. 5.anticipation (the act of preparing one's body for something)
6. 6.anticipation, anticipatory assimilation (the act of adjusting the quality of a sound to match those in front of it)
7. 7.anticipation (a non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord)

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