Hypertext Webster Gateway: "predictor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Predictor \Pre*dict"or\, n.
One who predicts; a foreteller.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
predictor
n 1: someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the
basis of special knowledge) [syn: {forecaster}, {prognosticator},
{soothsayer}]
2: information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future
events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors
of mutual fund performance"
3: 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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