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- adverb In
prognostic terms.
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Examples
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Ocean water albedo is calculated prognostically as a function of wavelength, accounting for ocean composition.
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The wavelength-dependent albedos over snow and sea ice are calculated prognostically as opposed to being pre-set as the upward divided by downward irradiance from the radiative transfer calculation, above the snow or sea-ice layer.
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Nitric oxide emission from lightning is calculated prognostically by solving for the number of bounceoffs following collision among size-resolved ice-ice, ice-graupel, and ice-graupel interactions.
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Snow and sea ice albedos are calculated prognostically as a function of wavelength, accounting for black carbon inclusions within snow and sea ice.
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What this means prognostically is that surely she is going to do well for many months to years.
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It may be true that his feeling of discomfort could be cured in this way, but it is one thing to describe the feeling prognostically by its cure, and quite another thing to describe it diagnostically by saying that at the time it was directed at a certain object, the lowness of the door.
A Special Supplement: The Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy Pears, D.F. 1969
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Kraepelin, by studying the entire life history of his patients, was able to show that certain disease pictures when studied in cross section may simulate one another very closely clinically and at the same time be of the most diverse significance prognostically.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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The severe forms of this disorder, which may extend over weeks and months, are liable to be confused with progressive deteriorating processes, especially so because those symptoms which were wont to be considered by many as positively unfavorable prognostically, may be found here in very deceptive imitations.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck
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'This month!' he said, prognostically shaking and moaning.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'This month!' he said, prognostically shaking and moaning.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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