(law) In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.

(statistics) The probability of an event obtained without the knowledge of occurrence of other events that bear on it.

The chief of a group of priors, at a large religious house with more than one; also specifically, the commander of a priory of the Knights of St John.

plural of grand prior

plural of prior probability

(probability) In Bayesian probability, a non-informative (objective) prior distribution for a parameter space; it is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix.

plural of Jeffreys prior

A village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6089).

A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4346).

A village in Ford and Stoke Prior parish, south-east of Leominster, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5256).