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UK
/pɹɪdˈɪkʃən/
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[ US /pɹiˈdɪkʃən/ ]
[ US /pɹiˈdɪkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a statement made about the future
- the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
How To Use prediction In A Sentence
- Each, in any event, offers explanations at a level deeper than prediction.
- An objective analogue prediction model of tropical cyclone track is brought forward that considers the synthetical evaluation environment.
- This defense of evidential decision theory is called the tickle defense because it assumes that an introspected condition screens off the correlation between choice and prediction. Causal Decision Theory
- One last prediction the model makes is that the income differential paid to prostitutes will rise with the status the culture accords wives.
- In October, the retailer said it would shut 21% of its namesake North American stores over the next two years, coming to terms with the overextension of its store network before the recession and predictions that U.S. growth will be slow. Gap's Profit Falls 36%
- So what about my predictions for next year? Times, Sunday Times
- The fears are all thanks to a purported prediction of a major Roman quake Wednesday attributed to self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979. Quakes hit Italy, but none in Rome despite myth
- The model spews out implications that are demonstrably falsifiable given an appropriate dataset; i.e., if one can lay one's hand on a dataset, then the model's predictions can be verified as either true or false.
- No doubt, you have been very impressed indeed, by my unrivalled abilities in prediction.
- They based their predictions on one million-acre feet a year deficit of the Colorado River, massive amounts of evaporation from the lake and the viscous effects of a warming world from climate change. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper