noun
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A statement of what will happen in the future.
definition
A probability estimation based on statistical methods.
Examples of prediction in a Sentence
The carefully recorded prediction was verified by the siege of 1529.
This prediction was speedily fulfilled.
Natasha's prediction proved true.
It is evident that we have in this law a definite prediction that can be tested by experiment.
Experiment showed that the latter prediction was what happened.
Macaulay's prediction that the interest in the man would supersede that in his "Works" seemed and seems likely enough to justify itself; but his theory that the man alone mattered and that a portrait painted by the hand of an inspired idiot was a true measure of the man has not worn better than the common run of literary propositions.
This prediction is verified by the result of analysis.
The second part of the statement of Herodotus - the reality of the prediction by Thales - has been frequently called in question, chiefly on the ground that, in order to predict a solar eclipse with any chance of success, one should have the command of certain astronomical facts which were not known until the 3rd century, B.C., and then merely approximately, and only employed with that object in the following century by Hipparchus.
He was faithful to the Bourbons during the Hundred Days; in fact, was 1 This prediction is sometimes attributed to Laplace.
They were now journeying towards Jerusalem, and the prediction of the Passion was repeated.
This conception led Kekule to his "closed-chain" or "ring" theory of the constitution of benzene which has been called the "most brilliant piece of prediction to be found in the whole range of organic chemistry," and this in turn led in particular to the elucidation of the constitution of the "aromatic compounds," and in general to new methods of chemical synthesis and decomposition, and to a deeper insight into the composition of numberless organic bodies and their mutual relations.
No baby gender prediction methods are 100 percent accurate.
Dionysius of Alexandria had already referred a Messianic prediction of the Old Testament to the emperor Gallienus.
Borchers predicted that, at the high temperatures available with the electric furnace, every oxide would prove to be reducible by the action of carbon, and this prediction has in most instances been justified.
He succeeded a few years afterwards in verifying this remarkable prediction by the experimental demonstration that a current of positive electricity flowing from hot to cold in iron produced an absorption of heat, as though it possessed negative specific heat in the metal iron.
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He thus fulfilled the prediction of a druidess of Gaul, that he would mount a throne as soon as he had slain a wild boar (aper).
His miscellanies, in some of which his satire made the nearest approach perhaps ever made to the methods of physical force, such as A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and the poems Sid Hamet's Rod, The City Shower, The Windsor Prophecy, The Prediction of Merlin, and The History of Vanbrugh's House, belong to this period.
Short straddles represent the opposite prediction that a stock price will not change.
It is rather a prediction based on an expectation that current divorce and marriage trends will continue.
The gender prediction quizzes make enjoyable baby shower games.
There is no reason to risk injury or illness to take a baby gender prediction test.
Some swear that the baby gender prediction test really works.
Accurate prediction of pollutant dispersion is an important area of environmental research.
Premiership predictions Free to enter Prediction League covering 10 matches every Saturday from the English Premiership and 1st Division.
Players should not use timenudge on antilag servers, as there would be timenudge prediction on top of the ping compensation of antilag.
Therefore, these small global trends can be neglected for practical purposes and must not be considered in ionospheric prediction models.
In this project, we are applying e-Science and Grid technologies to the area of polymorph prediction.
Both Mike Harrison and myself tried to stress at the first workshop, that seasonal prediction is necessarily probabilistic.
Some of their advice looked prophetic in retrospect, such as their prediction of widespread looting and insurgency once Saddam Hussein's regime fell.
Using stepwise regression of a number of features of the signal stronger prediction equations are possible (R = 0.95 for meat toughness ).
Our aim is to quantify uncertainty in flow performance prediction due to uncertainty in a reservoir description.
The meteorology tuition includes the taking and interpretation of forecasts, plotting of weather systems and weather prediction using a barometer and by observation.
Using stepwise regression of a number of features of the signal stronger prediction equations are possible (R = 0.95 for meat toughness).
The Arabs even refuse to stay overnight, yet they know nothing of this prediction since it does not exist in the Qur'an.
Our website has an automated prediction posting feature (like Twitter) that posts every pre-game pick you make, making them visible to anyone else that is "following" you.
The Drano test for gender prediction is a dangerous approach for determining whether you are having a boy or a girl.
As with pregnancy tests, the Drano test for gender prediction instructs using first morning urine.
An ultrasound technician can offer a prediction with 80 to 90 percent accuracy, rather than 50 percent.
Of course, you will have to know exactly when you are about to ovulate, which can be done through various methods of ovulation prediction.
All in all, it seems that Gernreich's prediction that fashion will go out of fashion has yet to be realized.
While there's no way to guarantee the accuracy of the prediction, it is a lot of fun to speculate about your future child's gender.
Not only can you read the prediction, but you can check out the exotic images that accompany the horoscope for each sign.
Although this prediction often gets translated into an "end of days" prophecy, Votan's prediction is actually a bit more complex.
But the difficulty of regarding the visions as actual experiences, or as in any sense actual, is intensified, when full account is taken of the artifices of the writer; for the major part of his visions consists of what is to him really past history dressed up in the guise of prediction.
Hilda wants a prediction to come true before Stan can persuade her to become a clairvoyant.
It also incorporates a prediction database based on a 100 million-word corpus.
The properties are important in proportional counters, ionization chambers, drift chambers and in the prediction of the electrical breakdown of gases.
Rather than making a specific prediction, however, the outcome of a match is expressed in the form of a probability distribution.
He was celebrated in the Middle Ages as a prophet because of the interpretation of the fourth eclogue as a prediction of the Incarnation.