Prediction meaning

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The act of predicting.
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Something foretold or predicted; a prophecy.
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A predicting or being predicted.
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A statement of what will happen in the future.

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Yogi Berra or Robert Storm Petersen (in translation from Danish)

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The thing predicted or foretold.
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The definition of a prediction is a forecast or a prophecy.

An example of a prediction is a psychic telling a couple they will have a child soon, before they know the woman is pregnant.

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Origin of prediction

Prediction Sentence Examples

  • The carefully recorded prediction was verified by the siege of 1529.

  • This prediction was speedily fulfilled.

  • It is evident that we have in this law a definite prediction that can be tested by experiment.

  • Natasha's prediction proved true.

  • To about the same time must be referred his celebrated prediction of the eclipse of the sun, which took place on the 28th of May 585 B.C. This event, which was of the highest importance, has given rise to much discussion: The account of it as given by Herodotus (i.

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