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

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

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.

plural of ragged robbin

Alternative form of ragged robin

plural of Chapman-Robbins bound

(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.

(statistics) Synonym of Chapman-Robbins bound