prediction

UK/pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/US/pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,438 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: predictions

A prediction is a statement about what will happen. Make a prediction, an accurate prediction, prediction markets.

A prediction that cannot be wrong is worthless, which is the test: it must say what would count against it. Weather prediction is now genuinely good out to about a week and hopeless beyond two, because small errors grow.

Definitions of prediction

1nounpredictionA statement about what will happen.B2
“Her prediction that it would rain all weekend turned out to be right.”

prediction is a statement.

Where it comes from

Latin praedictio comes from praedicere, to say beforehand — prae, before, plus dicere, to say.

Proto-Indo-European
*deyḱ-
Latin
praedictiō
English, today
prediction

Latin praedictiō; equivalent to predict + ion. Compare the Germanic equivalents forespeaking, foretale, foretelling.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

prediction in the wild

A later study said that there was no valid short-term prediction.
Earthquake prediction
The most common form of a prediction market is a binary option market, which will expire at the price of 0 or 100%.
Prediction market
Structure prediction is different from the inverse problem of protein design.
Protein structure prediction
Branch prediction is not the same as branch target prediction.
Branch predictor
Branch prediction and branch target prediction are often combined into the same circuitry.
Branch predictor

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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