forecasting

n.

1.

The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.

Noun

1.

forecasting - a statement made about the future Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication

actuarial prediction, aerography, aerology, anemology, apocalypse, barometry, climatography, climatology, foreboding, forecast, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, guesswork, improbability, long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology, omen, pneumatics, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, vaticination, weatherology

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