surprisal

Meanings

Plural: surprisals

Noun

• the act of surprising someone
• A surprise attack or ambush; a sudden or unexpected assault.
• A sudden coming-upon someone or something unexpectedly or unawares.
• A surprising event or occurrence.
• The feeling caused by being surprised; surprise, shock, amazement.
• An information measure as equal in bits (binary digits) to the base-2 log of 1 over the probability, with the result that the number of choices equals 2ⁿ where n is the number of bits.

Synonyms

surprise