retrodict

verb

Etymology

From retro- + predict.

  1. borrowed from praedicō
  2. prefixed as retrodict — “retro + predict

Definitions

  1. To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.

    • Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retrodict. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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