Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of one who forecasts, or provides for consequences; premeditation.
- Having forethought; characterized by premeditation.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of forecast.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a statement made about the future
Examples
“Caution in forecasting is indeed a sensible policy.”
The Guardian: This can't go on: house prices must drop or wages must rise. Which seems more likely?
“In other words, weather forecasting is an “initial value” problem.”
“I know weather forecasting is a crap shoot, but still, I'd love to have a job where, based on the best information available, I was wrong 50% of the time and not get fired.”
“This, however, seems to take excessive liberties with the word forecasting.”
“Direct cash management including short term forecasting and coordinate cash needs with the long term investment function.”
“GROSS: Well, one of the things that we're actually doing here in Fort Collins this week is we're working with NASA scientists and other scientists, trying to take the science, the information, that we have on these invasive species, and put it with some high technology computing, and other types of technology, to try to create what we call forecasting, and predictive models -- which species are going to move where, which species are going to move the most quickly.”
“The second complicating factor in forecasting gubernatorial elections is, as referred to here last month, a actuality which a electoral climate for governors right right away is zero short of brutal.”
“Even if the company sticks to its usual conservatism in forecasting the current quarter, investors are likely to remain as enthusiastic as Apple 's own customers.”
The Wall Street Journal: On Apple and Its (Enviable) Problems
“Finally, moles are supposed to have long-term forecasting ability.”
“Short-term forecasting performance may fairly be described as poor; long-term forecasting success was only slightly better," concluded the study.”
The Wall Street Journal: Maximum Money: Forecasting the Markets in 2012
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