Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun exceedance

1 sense of exceedance

Sense 1
exceedance -- ((geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time; "the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling")
       => probability, chance -- (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5")