probable : Idioms & Phrases

noun (law) evidence sufficient to warrant an arrest or search and seizure
- a magistrate determined that there was probable cause to search the house

(Law), a reasonable ground of presumption that a charge is, or my be, well founded.

(of an observation, or of the mean of a number), that within which, taken positively and negatively, there is an even chance that the real error shall lie. Thus, if 3&sec; is the probable error in a given case, the chances that the real error is greater than 3&sec; are equal to the chances that it is less. The probable error is computed from the observations made, and is used to express their degree of accuracy. now, usually standard deviation is used

that which is within the bounds of probability; that which is not unnatural or preternatural; opposed to the marvelous.