predictor
pronunciation
How to pronounce predictor in British English:
UK [prɪˈdɪktə(r)]
How to pronounce predictor in American English:
US [prɪˈdɪktər]
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- Noun:
- someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
- information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events
- a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
Word Origin
- predictor (n.)
- 1650s, from Medieval Latin praedictor, agent noun from praedicere (see predict). Statistical sense is from 1950.
Example
- 1. For cancer drugs , tumor shrinkage is considered a predictor of increased survival .
- 2. He says : " the best predictor of what the president will do is what he has done in the past . "
- 3. But most importantly , neither immigration nor ethnicity is the primary predictor of a lack of social cohesion .
- 4. Neither of these works , according to achor , because investing in the people around us and our own happiness is the best predictor of career success .
- 5. Mr mueller , the predictor of the iraq syndrome , notes that apart from a mild rise in isolationism after the vietnam war and a brief drop after the first gulf war , changes in sentiment have been fairly modest .