Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who predicts or foretells; one who prophesies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who predicts; a foreteller.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that
anticipates ,predicts orforetells .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
- noun a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
- noun information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events
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Examples
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It is also used as a short-term predictor of investor behavior.
Investing in Fear Is Big Business Brendan Conway 2010
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Now let's turn to the second element, unit labor costs, which I also see as a good short-term predictor of inflation.
Top Fed Official Offers Dire Forecast, Says Economy Will Suffer For Years 2010
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Or Facilitate It. TechCrunch on Marketwatch who are adding digg like functionality to stock codes, neat: The predictor is a small widget included on every stock listing page (example).
i'm in if u r. Ben Barren 2007
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Darcy Burner's main predictor of success as a Congresswoman lies in her brief presidency of the Ames Lake Community Club.
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If bond traders feel free to sell then there is no better long term predictor of a Fed rate increase.
FXstreet.com 2009
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This analysis shows a renormalization of price dividend ratios which have been shown to be the best long-term predictor of, overall market performance.
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You can tap the small Abc button at the bottom-right corner of the screen to switch between several different modes, such as all caps, numbers, and symbols, as well as a word predictor keyboard that works rather well.
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If bond traders feel free to sell then there is no better long term predictor of a Fed rate increase.
IBTimes.com RSS Feed 2009
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a phonetic spell checker, a word predictor, a speaking dictionary and a scanning facility.
PublicTechnology.net 2008
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The caveat in von Storch 1999 about re-scaling is that it is not a given that blowing up the variance of a predictor is a "correct" method of matching variance of a predictor to the variance of a target.
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