An arbitration panel did not believe those hypotheses and said there was a "negligible probability" that Mr. Hamilton was anything but guilty.

While theoretically possible, these explanations were ruled to be of "negligible probability".

The effects could be expected to be comparable to heavy, widespread air attack, with some impacts on nuclear-equivalent scale, with a small but not negligible probability of these occurring on dense population centers.

Clearly there is some probability, probably negligible, of markets not keeping up with the risk-free investment benchmarks.

"Rule out" practically means to use tests and other scientific methods to render a condition of clinically negligible probability of being the cause.

If such negligible probabilities are achieved, these conditions can be decided to be ruled out, and the differential diagnostic procedure continues with only the remaining candidate conditions.

However it is possible to get the code rate arbitrarily close to the Shannon entropy, with negligible probability of loss.

"There is negligible probability that the crossings were caused by random walks," Cassandra said.

And as long as the fantasy is possible, even a negligible probability of winning becomes paradoxically reinforcing, Dr. Cohen said.

Alternatively, one may recall that trembles are to be interpreted as modelling mistakes made by the players with some negligible probability when the game is played.