Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
2) n. - Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven.
3) n. - Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.
4) n. - The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.