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Predictor   /prɪdˈɪktər/   Listen
Predictor

noun
1.
Someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge).  Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer.
2.
Information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events.
3.
A computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival.



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"Predictor" Quotes from Famous Books



... of quality, in which a detailed account is given of Partridge's death, at five minutes after seven, by which it is clear that Mr. Bickerstaff was mistaken almost four hours in his calculation.... Whether he had been the cause of this poor man's death, as well as the predictor, may be very reasonably disputed." The joke was maintained by Swift and others in various pieces, and when Partridge, in his almanac for 1709, protested that he was still living, Swift replied, in "A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.," which was advertised ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken
... will prognosticate a change of weather to happen at the new moon, or the first quarter, or the full, or the last quarter, or, at all events, three days before, or three days after one or other of these periods; so that the predictor has, at the least, eight and twenty days out of a lunar revolution, in favour of his prediction being right, and the whole lunation is only twenty-nine and a half. He has also another great advantage: the accidental coincidence of ...
— Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey thr • John Barrow


Words linked to "Predictor" :   flak, data processor, computing device, flack, prognosticator, fortuneteller, electronic computer, predict, fortune teller, predictor variable, computing machine, illusionist, information processing system, forecaster, information, astrologer, ack-ack gun, visionary, astrologist, pom-pom, computer, ack-ack, seer, antiaircraft gun, antiaircraft


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