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PREDICTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Synonyms:
anticipation; prediction; prevision
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prediction" is a kind of...):
abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning (thinking that is coherent and logical)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prediction"):
projection (a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations)
prognostication; prophecy; vaticination (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))
adumbration; foreshadowing; prefiguration (the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand)
Derivation:
predict (make a prediction about; tell in advance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A statement made about the future
Synonyms:
forecasting; foretelling; prediction; prognostication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prediction" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prediction"):
extropy (the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe)
fortunetelling (the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment))
horoscope (a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets)
meteorology; weather forecasting (predicting what the weather will be)
forecast; prognosis (a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop)
divination; prophecy (a prediction uttered under divine inspiration)
Context examples:
A characteristic of an organism that contributes to the diagnosis or treatment of a disease or to the prediction of clinical outcomes.
(Diagnostic or Prognostic Factor, NCI Thesaurus)
A field of human genetics which entails the reliable prediction of certain human disorders as a function of the lineage and/or genetic makeup of any two parents or potential parents.
(Medical Genetics, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Orbit prediction experts say the asteroid poses no risk of impact with Earth.
(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)
In order to evaluate these AI-found features, the research group verified the performance of recurrence prediction using the remaining cases from NMSH (internal validation).
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A profile-profile alignment algorithm that make structural predictions using sequence information.
(FFAS Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)
The new prediction for 2013 TX68 is that it will fly by roughly 3 million miles (5 million kilometers) from our planet.
(Small Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth March 8, NASA)
Upon uptake by P-gp at the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and subsequent PET imaging, this radioligand may allow for prediction of P-gp function and expression in brain tumor patients.
(Carbon C 11 N-desmethyl-Loperamide, NCI Thesaurus)
The findings confirm longstanding, but previously unvalidated, predictions for how plumes rise from fires, and offer new insights into the processes that control how high and how far wildfire smoke will spread.
(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)
It was not very long before my friend’s prediction was fulfilled.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The predictions vary widely depending on assumptions about how plants respond to climate.
(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)
