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Forecasting vs Predictive – What’s the difference?

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Forecasting vs Predictive - What's the difference?
As a verb forecasting is .
As a noun forecasting is a forecast or prediction.

As an adjective predictive is.

forecasting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun )

  • A forecast or prediction.
  • * 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
    • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin

    predictive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective )

  • Useful in predicting.
  • :The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
  • (computing) Describing a predictor.

    • Derived terms

    *predictive text

    Antonyms

    *reactive

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