Predictor

3 definitions found

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

  Predictor \Pre*dict"or\, n.
     One who predicts; a foreteller.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  predictor
       n 1: someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the
            basis of special knowledge) [syn: {forecaster}, {prognosticator},
             {soothsayer}]
       2: information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future
          events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors
          of mutual fund performance"
       3: a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes
          the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's
          arrival

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

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "predictor":
     Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler,
     crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster,
     foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller,
     geomancer, haruspex, palmist, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator,
     prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic,
     pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, soothsayer, vates,
     weather prophet