A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies. / The spring of a carriage. / (nautical) Alternative form of ropeband

plural of robbin

A surname originating as a patronymic. / A male given name / A female given name

An English surname originating as a patronymic, from Robin + -s. / A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Mac Roibín (“son of Robin”) (Cribbin).

(UK, education) The idea that university places should be available to everybody who qualifies for them by ability and attainment.

Alternative form of ragged robin

plural of ragged robbin

(statistics) A lower bound on the variance of estimators of a deterministic parameter; a generalization of the Cramér-Rao bound, it is both tighter and more widely applicable, but usually harder to compute.

plural of Chapman-Robbins bound

(statistics) Synonym of Chapman-Robbins bound