fore·cast

(fôr′kăst′)

tr.v. fore·cast or fore·cast·ed, fore·cast·ing, fore·casts

1. To estimate or predict in advance, especially to predict (weather conditions) by analysis of meteorological data. See Synonyms at predict.

2. To serve as an advance indication of; foreshadow: price increases that forecast inflation.

A prediction, as of coming events or conditions: The weather forecast stated that it would rain.

[Middle English forecasten, to plan beforehand : fore-, fore- + casten, to throw, calculate, prepare; see cast.]

fore·cast′a·ble adj.

fore′cast′er n.

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Noun

forecasting - a statement made about the future

foretelling, prediction, prognostication

statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"

extropy - the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe

fortunetelling - the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment)

horoscope - a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets

meteorology, weather forecasting - predicting what the weather will be

forecast, prognosis - a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

divination, prophecy - a prediction uttered under divine inspiration

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And as to forecasting Dag Daughtry's fate, along with Kwaque, no maddest drug-dream could have approximated it.

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There was no forecasting this strange girl's processes.

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Amazon uses forecasting to make sure that the right product is in the right place at the right time by predicting demand for hundreds of millions of products every day.

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Forecast

Data and text mining have great potential if one considers forecasting to be more than traditional methods based on time series data, extending the forecast concept to predictive analytics.

WHAT DO BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS SAY ABOUT FORECASTING IN THE MARKETING CURRICULUM?

However, Neri said in his 20-year career, he found 2018 to be the 'toughest' year in forecasting monthly and annual inflation rates.

Economists to government: Don't blame us for inflation

A great leap forward was made when supercomputers were introduced to the forecasting community in the 1950s.

A brighter outlook for tomorrow's weather forecasts; JON SHONK on why the weather forecast will always be just a little bit wrong

KRISHNAMURTI, "Improvements in hurricane intensity forecasts from a multimodel superensemble utilizing a generalized neural network technique," in the June issue of Weather and Forecasting.

IMPROVING HURRICANE INTENSITY FORECASTS USING A SUPERENSEMBLE AND NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE

However, I've recently had a couple of conversations about companies that are experimenting with partially outsourcing their demand forecasting processes to external consultants.

Outsource forecasting? Be careful. Demand forecasting should be done in-house for effective and efficient integration with planning processes such as S&OP and also for competitive and financial disclosure reasons

(1) Forecasting revenues is no different; research shows that the strongest predictor of improved forecasting performance is a deliberate, committed practice +of self-improvement, including updating the forecaster's personal assumptions and belief system about forecasting as a result of experienced (2)

Learn by doing: making your forecasts better

It has already been applied on flood forecasting and early warning of flood with successful results.

Flood Forecasting Based on TIGGE Precipitation Ensemble Forecast

(1) The Institute began forecasting the aggregate Euro Area in 1998, consequently the comparison here begins in 2000.

The accuracy of NIESR's GDP growth forecasts