forecasting
- noun
- /ˈfɔrˌkæstɪŋ/
- Activities promote research skills such as identifying the problem, planning, and forecasting.
- weather forecasting
- demand forecasting
- economic forecasting
Also, a lot of schools have free student memberships to expensive forecasting services like WGSN.
- Also, a lot of schools have free student memberships to expensive forecasting services like WGSN.
- So satellite navigation, communications, weather forecasting, Earth observation, climate observation and so on.
- Fashion freelancing, fashion marketing, fashion trend forecasting.
- And essentially how that works in the practice is that there is an automated forecasting process.
- When we look at that, we are very accurate at forecasting tomorrow's stress mood and happy, sad mood and health.
- With the increased use of observation balloons, gas attacks and aircraft, precise weather forecasting became more and more relevant.
- They were, and they did it because forecasting astronomical relations, doing all sorts of calculation.
- It's something that Mark Spitznagle constantly says is that he is shit at forecasting.
- I'm so sick of piss poor weather forecasting slash meteorologist that are bad at their jobs.
Examples
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The economic forecasting provided by the analysts helped businesses plan for the upcoming year.
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A few of these famous aircraft have been operated on daily met flights, helping in the task of weather forecasting.
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So one of these organizations that does forecasting for corporate media.
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So we also have what is basically precision weather forecasting, right?
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Recent changes throughout Europe make forecasting impacts and changes in energy and environmental policies nearly impossible.
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Local forecasting is predicting heavy rain.
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New techniques promise better forecasting of where damaging contaminants in the ocean or atmosphere will end up.
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Demand forecasting helped nursing units set staffing levels based on predicted admissions rather than the midnight census.
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Weather forecasting uses data from satellites to predict future climate patterns.
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Financial forecasting is essential for making informed investment decisions based on market trends.
Synonyms
A guess about what will happen in the future based on facts or signs
An estimate of a future result based on past and present data
A statement about what will happen in the future
To say what will happen in the future
Compounds
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word forecasting comes from the parts fore- meaning 'before' and cast meaning 'to throw'. Imagine 'throwing' your view forward to see what will happen next, so forecasting is the act of predicting events before they happen.