Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of predicting.
- noun Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of predicting or foretelling; a prophecy; declaration concerning future events.
- noun Synonyms Prediction, Prophecy, Divination, Prognostication, augury, vaticination, soothsaying. Prophecy is the highest of these words, ordinarily expressing an inspired foretelling of future events, and only figuratively expressing anything else. It is the only one of them that expresses the power as well as the act: as, the gift of prophecy. Prediction may or may not be an inspired act; it is most commonly used of the foretelling of events in accordance with knowledge gained through scientific investigations or practical experience, and is thus the most general of these words. Divination is the act of an augur or an impostor. Prognostication is the interpretation of signs with reference to the future, especially as to the course of disease. See foretell, prophet, inference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.
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- noun A
statement of what willhappen in the future.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
- noun a statement made about the future
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Examples
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So how do we establish confidence in prediction from the model?
AGU Day 3 part C: How good are predictions from climate models? | Serendipity 2010
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So it's clear the majority of voters want the Dems, but the prediction is the Republicans will win because Dem voters are going to stay home.
Michael Moore: Today Is the Day Michael Moore 2010
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So it's clear the majority of voters want the Dems, but the prediction is the Republicans will win because Dem voters are going to stay home.
Michael Moore: Today Is the Day Michael Moore 2010
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Your prediction is already falsified by research I posted on this very thread.
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Your prediction is already falsified by research I posted on this very thread.
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If the Nostradamus prediction is an urban legend and the prediction was about the city under the sea being flooded then it may have moved into the realms of genuine prediction … that is … if the prediction for the flooded city came just after 9/11.
Think Progress » O’Reilly Tonight: How Blogs Are Destroying America 2005
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My long term prediction is that Mexico's violence will increase with the "opening" of Mexico.
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My long term prediction is that Mexico's violence will increase with the "opening" of Mexico.
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He first came to public attention in April, posting on a jihadist website called "Revolution Muslim" what he called a prediction ( "It's not a threat, but it really is a likely outcome") that the cartoonists who created
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Most of this kind of prediction is based on extrapolation, on taking existing knowledge and trends and merely extending these trends into the future.
April « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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