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n. (context science fiction English) A precognitive person.
Usage examples of "precog".
Originally, he had been classified as a hydrocephalic idiot but when he reached the age of six the psych testers had identified the precog talent, buried under the layers of tissue corrosion.
Rhyssa shot back, willing Mallie, the strongest precog that she had set on watch for anything involving Peter, to answer.
Sister Bettina, their own corporate precog, must have foreseen something like this and alerted them.
This man, John Allison Anderton, was instrumental in the original creation of the Precrime system, the prophylactic pre-detection of criminals through the ingenious use of mutant precogs, capable of previewing future events and transferring orally that data to analytical machinery.
And beyond the machinery sat the three precogs, almost lost to view in the maze of wiring.
It is much more common to obtain a collaborative majority report of two precogs, plus a minority report of some slight variation, usually with reference to time and place, from the third mutant.
In every case, without exception, the report of the three police precogs has invalidated their own data.
I explained, and as Joe indicated on the test report, it aborts the precogs out of business.
The precogs have been going crazy the last few days, insisting Something Bad is in the air.
There was a friendly debate within the Center whether "finders" were precogs or clairvoyants, but they had affinity for "lost items," organic and inorganic.
No— not clairvoyants or precogs like Mit, for Mit had not been deceived.
I may find out that I have a chronic low-grade precog power that simply went off the scale into a basic qualitative change in 2-3-74 due to the Xerox missive, disjoining me from normal causal temporal reality entirely, both in terms of the past (anamnesis) and the future (moving retrograde in time and precognition).
In her mind churned images of the previous year's catastrophic floods in the northeastern sections of the Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog had come in.
We got only one other personal precog involving the Incident but your data alone— particularly the registry—was sufficient.
Bud worth set himself for her fury in reporting a precog involving the man.