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predictive | predicted |

As an adjective predictive

is .

As a verb predicted is

(predict).

predictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Useful in predicting.
  • :The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
  • (computing) Describing a predictor.
  • Derived terms

    *predictive text

    Antonyms

    *reactive

    predicted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (predict)
  • :2006 , Christopher Baum, An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata , iv. 104
  • ;:There are two commonly used definitions of "prediction", the predicted' value and the forecast. The ' predicted value estimates the average value of the dependent variable for given values of the regressors.
  • :2012 , (Jeremy Bernstein), " A Palette of Particles" in (American Scientist) , Vol. 100, No. 2, p. 146
  • ::The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.