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predictor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun predictor has 3 senses
- predictor(n = noun.person) forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer - someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge); Array has particulars: astrologer, astrologist, fortune teller, fortuneteller
- predictor(n = noun.cognition) Array - information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance" is a kind of information
- predictor(n = noun.artifact) Array - a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival; Array is a part of ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom
is a kind of illusionist, seer, visionary
Derived form verb predict1
is a kind of computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
THESAURUS
predictor
Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, palmist, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, soothsayer, vates, weather prophetROGET THESAURUS
predictor
Oracle
N oracle, prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer, witch, geomancer, aruspex, aruspice, haruspice, haruspex, astrologer, star gazer, Sibyl, Python, Pythoness, Pythia, Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle, Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves, Zadkiel, Old Moore, sorcerer, interpreter, predictor, prognosticator, forecaster, weather forecaster, weatherman, a prophet is without honor in his own country, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the.
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