# prediction

Pronunciation: US say "pri-DIK-shuhn" /pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/; UK

## Noun

1. A statement saying what someone believes will happen in the future.
   - Simple: A guess or statement about what will happen later.
   - _The economist's prediction about rising prices proved accurate within months._
   - _Several predictions of the storm's path differed by hundreds of miles._
2. An estimate of how likely an outcome is, calculated using statistical methods.
   - Simple: A guess about how likely something is to happen, worked out using numbers and data.
   - _The model's prediction assigned an 80 percent probability to the patient's recovery._
   - _Analysts compared the algorithm's predictions against the outcomes that actually occurred._

## Origin

A learned borrowing from Latin "praedictiō" (stem "praedictiōnis"), equivalent to "predict" plus the suffix "-ion".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/prediction (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).