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forecasting
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a statement made about the future [syn: prediction , foretelling , prognostication ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A forecast or prediction. vb. (present participle of forecast English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
forecasting \fore"cast*ing\ n. The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty. Syn: prediction, foretelling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., verbal noun from forecast (v.).
Usage examples of forecasting.
Farther off was an area of dark mist that spread along the horizon, broken its entire length by a range of forbidding-looking mountains about ten sizes bigger than the ones we had passed through after leaving Klamath Falls, their peaks set so close together, they might have been a graph forecasting the progress of a spectacularly erratic business.
The latest information on long-scale weather forecasting through direct observation of terrestrial jet-streams would not compare with radioscopes and proton storms.
The latest information on long-scale weather forecasting through direct observation of terrestrial jet streams would not compare with radioscopes and protonstorms.
They were forecasting that when the population exceeded the resources necessary to support it--whether because the fuels and ores were used up and soil fertility lost, or because the population simply grew too big--billions of people would die.
The pseudosciences sometimes intersect, compounding the confusion - as in telepathic searches for buried treasures from Atlantis, or astrological economic forecasting.
He wondered if their lore included the forecasting of snow by the northward movement of the woollies, but he doubted it.
He was thinking-measuring distances, gauging relative speeds, forecasting the Warward's attrition rate.
However, when I remembered the fixation with earthquakes and floods apparent everywhere in Mexican mythology, and the equally obsessive concern with forecasting future events evident in the Maya calendar, I felt less inclined to dismiss the apparently far-fetched conclusions of the American engineer.
The Nile is confirmed to have its rise in Lake Victoria, as the English explorer John Speke had suggested in 1858, and the characters congratulate themselves that their “discoveries are entirely in accord with the forecastings of science.
But he seemed to have lost all interest for the time in the things that went to make up his daily life, as well as in all pleasant forecastings of the altered days and doings that the changing season was surely bringing.
The bottom line is that the successes in forecasting have been overstated (sometimes drastically) and misapplied in other areas.
This brought to mind the evidence for water having once run in the Street of the Dead, the sluices and partition walls I had seen earlier to the north of the Citadel, and Schlemmer’s theory of reflecting pools and seismic forecasting.
He walked aimlessly for a few blocks, pausing to look at a window here, a holographic display there, a street vendor selling exquisite alien stone carvings, a psychic forecasting the fall of the Democracy, a street musician of an unknown race playing an atonal but haunting melody on a string instrument of strange design.
A lot of weather forecasting fell into atmospheric pressure pictures of close and distant fronts, three dimensional and always on the move.
A lot of weather forecasting fell into atmospheric pressure pictures of close and distant fronts, three-dimensional and always on the move.