FORECASTING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A statement made about the future

Synonyms:

forecasting; foretelling; prediction; prognostication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("forecasting" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forecasting"):

extropy (the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe)

fortunetelling (the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment))

horoscope (a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets)

meteorology; weather forecasting (predicting what the weather will be)

forecast; prognosis (a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop)

divination; prophecy (a prediction uttered under divine inspiration)

Derivation:

forecast (predict in advance)

-ing form of the verb forecast