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predictive

Word definitions for predictive in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Late Latin praedictivus , from praedict- , past participle stem of praedicere (see predict ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions [syn: prognostic , prognosticative ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Useful in predicting. 2 (context computing English) Describing a predictor. 3 (Medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predictive \Pre*dict"ive\, a. [L. praedictivus.] Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding. -- Pre*dict"ive*ly , adv.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN model ▪ Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr etal. ▪ Energy management Science offers a key to solving environmental problems by providing more data to construct better predictive ...

Usage examples of predictive.

Efforts, however, are underway to establish a viable predictive model which will integrate the various tectonic, geologic, hydrological, and seismic dynamics presently under investigation by Geosciences Department personnel.

Dekkeret himself had only the most casual interest in the persistence of the mantic arts as a phenomenon of modern culture, and no belief whatever in their predictive value.

The predictive algorithm accepts as input any music, or non-music, and tells what the musicality of that input is, and predicts its effect on the human listener.

One of the main insights of quantum mechanics is that our predictive power is fundamentally limited to asserting that such-and-such outcome will occur with such-and-such probability.

This scholarly essay concurs in many essential respects with the thesis that Canadian and other non American Root Cults, in contrast to all but what Phelps and Phelps argue are isolated pockets of antihistorical American stelliformism, persist so queerly in directing their reverent fealty toward principles, quote, "often not only isomorphic with but activally opposed to the cultists' own individual pleasure, comfort, cut bono, or entertainment as to be all but outside the ken of both the sophisticated predictive models of psychosocial science and the rudimentary comprehension of human reason.

Preliminary predictive databasing indicates posi­tive ozonation yields without statistically significant shifts in lateral ecosystem equilibria.

What is more, we shall never, no matter how refined our predictive tools become, be able to forecast the exact sequence of future states of the society.

Even more predictive, the family of the girl he had chosen to replace his dead wife had refused to accept the three lengths of roanoke he had offered as her purchase price.

Such an institute, staffed with top caliber men and women from all the sciences and social sciences, would take as its purpose the collection and systematic integration of predictive reports generated by scholars and imaginative thinkers in all the intellectual disciplines all over the world.