forecasting

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verb (used with object)

to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.

to serve as a prediction of; foreshadow.

to contrive or plan beforehand; prearrange.

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verb (used without object)

to conjecture beforehand; make a prediction.

to plan or arrange beforehand.

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noun

a prediction, especially as to the weather.

a conjecture as to something in the future.

the act, practice, or faculty of forecasting.

Archaic. foresight in planning.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (noun) plan. See fore-, cast¹

Related forms

fore·cast·a·ble, adjective

fore·cast·er, noun

re·fore·cast, verb (used with object), re·fore·cast or re·fore·cast·ed, re·fore·cast·ing.

un·fore·cast, adjective

un·fore·cast·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. foretell, anticipate. See predict. 3. project. 4, 7. guess, estimate. 9. forethought, prescience.

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WordNet

forecasting
noun
a statement made about the future [syn: prediction]

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numerical weather prediction probabilistic prognosis synoptic meteorology

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"Predictions usually deal with events—who will win an election, whether or not a country will go to war, the specification of a new invention; they center on decisions. Yet such predictions, while possible, cannot be formalized, i.e. made subject to rules. The prediction of events is inherently difficult. Events are the intersect of social vectors (interests, forces, pressures, and the like). While one can to some extent assess the strength of these vectors individually, one would need a "social physics" to predict the exact crosspoints where decisions and forces combine.... Forecasting is possible where there are regularities and recurrences of phenomena (these are rare), of where there are persisting trends whose direction, if not exact trajectory, can be plotted with statistical time-series or be formulated as historical tendencies. Necessarily, therefore, one deals with probabili ties and an array of possible projections. But the limitations of forecasting are also evident. The further one reaches ahead in time with a set of forecasts, the greater the margin for error, since the fan of the projections widens."

-Daniel Bell