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