Foresight

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foresight \Fore"sight`\, n.
     1. The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience;
        foreknowledge. --Milton.
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     2. Action in reference to the future; provident care;


        prudence; wise forethought.
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              This seems an unseasonable foresight. --Milton.
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              A random expense, without plan or foresight.
                                                    --Burke.
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     3. (Surv.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except
        the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or
        theodolite in a forward direction.
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     4. (Gun.) Muzzle sight. See {Fore sight}, under {Fore}, a.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foresight
       n 1: providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
            [syn: {foresightedness}, {foresightfulness}]
       2: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: {prevision},
           {prospicience}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  195 Moby Thesaurus words for "foresight":
     ESP, actuarial prediction, acuity, acumen, acuteness, aftertime,
     afteryears, anticipation, apocalypse, apperception, approach,
     arrangement, astuteness, attack, beginnings, blueprint,
     blueprinting, by-and-by, calculation, canniness, care, caution,
     charting, circumspection, clairsentience, clairvoyance, cogency,
     conception, contrivance, course ahead, crystal ball, design,
     determinism, device, discernment, discreetness, discretion,
     disposition, distant future, earliness, early hour, early stage,
     enterprise, envisagement, eventuality, expectation,
     extrasensory perception, farseeingness, farsightedness, figuring,
     first crack, first stage, forearming, foreboding, forecast,
     forecasting, forehandedness, foreknowledge, foreshowing,
     foresightedness, foretelling, forethought, forethoughtfulness,
     forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, game,
     graphing, ground floor, ground plan, guesswork, guidelines,
     head start, hereafter, idea, immediate future, immediate prospect,
     imminence, improbability, incisiveness, insight, insurance,
     intention, intuition, layout, lineup, long-range plan,
     longheadedness, longsightedness, lucidity, mapping, master plan,
     measures, method, methodology, near future, offing, omen,
     operations research, organization, outlook, penetration,
     perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicaciousness,
     perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plan, planning,
     planning function, posteriority, prearrangement, precaution,
     precautions, precautiousness, prediction, prefiguration,
     prefigurement, prefiguring, premonition, presage, presaging,
     prescience, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prevenience,
     preventive measure, prevision, probability, procedure, prognosis,
     prognostication, program, program of action, project, promise,
     prophecy, prophesying, prospect, prospectus, protection,
     providence, provision, prudence, psychometry, rationalization,
     readiness, running start, safeguard, sagaciousness, sagacity,
     schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme,
     scheme of arrangement, second sight, sensibility, setup,
     sixth sense, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, steps,
     steps and measures, strategic plan, strategy, system,
     systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture,
     the future, the morrow, the picture, the sweet by-and-by,
     time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, time to spare, tomorrow,
     trenchancy, vaticination, very beginning, vision, watchfulness,
     way, wisdom, working plan
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Foresight
       
           A software product from {Nu Thena} providing
          graphical modelling tools for high level system design and
          {simulation}.
       
          (1994-10-24)