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prediction meaning

EN[pɹɪˈdɪkʃn]
WPrediction
  • A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere,
  • Although guaranteed accurate information about the future is in many cases impossible,
prediction
  • NounPLpredictionsPREpré-SUF-ion
    1. A statement of what will happen in the future.
      1. "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Yogi Berra or Robert Storm Petersen (in translation from Danish)
    2. A probability estimation based on statistical methods.
    3. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • These predictions may enable new possibilities of particle handling in acoustophoretic techniques..
        • any of their predictions came true, but of course, many did not. ‎
        • Our findings suggest that current precystectomy models for prediction of LN metastasis should be improved further.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • It was shown that penalized regressions are usually robust and provide better accuracy than nonpenalized methods for disease prediction.

    Meaning of prediction for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "prediction" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Morphemes
        • Suffixes
          • Words by suffix
            • Words suffixed with -ion
        • Nouns
          • Countable nouns
        Difficultness: Level 3
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        Definiteness: Level 4
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        Definite    ➨     Versatile
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