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English noun: predictor | |||
| 1. | predictor (person) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | ||
| Synonyms | forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | illusionist, seer, visionary | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | astrologer, astrologist, fortune teller, fortuneteller | ||
| 2. | predictor (cognition) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | ||
| Samples | The weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | information | ||
| 3. | predictor (artifact) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system | ||
| Part meronym | ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom | ||
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