Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having forethought; characterized by premeditation.
- noun The act of one who forecasts, or provides for consequences; premeditation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
forecast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a statement made about the future
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Examples
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Caution in forecasting is indeed a sensible policy.
This can't go on: house prices must drop or wages must rise. Which seems more likely? Julia Finch 2010
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In other words, weather forecasting is an “initial value” problem.
Initial value vs. boundary value problems | Serendipity 2010
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In other words, weather forecasting is an “initial value” problem.
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In other words, weather forecasting is an “initial value” problem.
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I know weather forecasting is a crap shoot, but still, I'd love to have a job where, based on the best information available, I was wrong 50% of the time and not get fired.
Stormy Weather 2007
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This, however, seems to take excessive liberties with the word forecasting.
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994
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This, however, seems to take excessive liberties with the word forecasting.
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994
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Direct cash management including short term forecasting and coordinate cash needs with the long term investment function.
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GROSS: Well, one of the things that we're actually doing here in Fort Collins this week is we're working with NASA scientists and other scientists, trying to take the science, the information, that we have on these invasive species, and put it with some high technology computing, and other types of technology, to try to create what we call forecasting, and predictive models -- which species are going to move where, which species are going to move the most quickly.
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The second complicating factor in forecasting gubernatorial elections is, as referred to here last month, a actuality which a electoral climate for governors right right away is zero short of brutal.
2010: An Early Snapshot of the Electoral Landscape admin 2009
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