projectable
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5.4
- adjective
- /prəˈdʒɛktəbl/
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predecible
- The study was conducted among a projectable sample of the student population at a mid-sized southwestern state university.
Examples
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Get 5-7 projectable young pitchers and hope two of them pan out to become your front-of-the-rotation guys.
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Sure, he hit a rough patch in the second half, but he proved to be an incredibly capable pitcher with a very high, projectable upside.
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Considering Callis's love of projectable players with very high upsides, I'm not surprised Owens rates so highly.
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So Ron Wyden was easily projectable when the polls closed in Oregon, but Patty Murray was not, even though the poll suggested she had a small lead.
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The weather patterns this year are projectable based on the collected data from previous decades.
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Using historical sales data, the analysts created a projectable model to estimate future revenue.
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With the current trends in the market, the company's growth is highly projectable for the next year.
Synonyms
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4.3
Likely to happen in the near future
Antonyms
How Predictable
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1.0
189
2.5
59
4.3
1
5.4
149
2.8
163
4.4
5
6.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Projectable comes from project, formed from pro- 'forward' and ject 'to throw'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine 'throwing' trends forward in time, so something projectable is easy to predict or estimate for the future.