"predictive" meaning in English

See predictive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/ Forms: more predictive [comparative], most predictive [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪktɪv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|praedictivus}} Latin praedictivus, {{suf|en|predict|ive}} predict + -ive Head templates: {{en-adj}} predictive (comparative more predictive, superlative most predictive)
  1. Useful in predicting. Translations (useful in predicting): предсказващ (predskazvašt) (Bulgarian), пророчески (proročeski) (Bulgarian), predictiu (Catalan), prédictif (French), predittivo (Italian), preditivo (Portuguese), предсказывающий (predskazyvajuščij) (Russian), предвещающий (predveščajuščij) (Russian), предсказательный (predskazatelʹnyj) (Russian), предвосхищающий (predvosxiščajuščij) (Russian), predictivo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-predictive-en-adj-E6mrBELT Disambiguation of 'useful in predicting': 97 2 1
  2. (computing) Describing a predictor. Categories (topical): Computing Translations ((computing) describing a predictor): предиктивный (prediktivnyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-predictive-en-adj-0xL15KKj Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ive, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ive: 7 17 5 39 31 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 18 6 37 30 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of '(computing) describing a predictor': 3 95 2
  3. (medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test. Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-predictive-en-adj-P8WSzWXP Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: predictive coding, predictive market, predictive parser, predictive text, predictive texting

Noun

IPA: /pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/ Forms: predictives [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪktɪv Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|praedictivus}} Latin praedictivus, {{suf|en|predict|ive}} predict + -ive Head templates: {{en-noun}} predictive (plural predictives)
  1. (grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile."). Categories (topical): Grammar
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  2. (statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data. Categories (topical): Statistics
    Sense id: en-predictive-en-noun-Gk6lWpmx Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ive, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ive: 7 17 5 39 31 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 18 6 37 30 Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

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        "2": "la",
        "3": "praedictivus"
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      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "predict",
        "3": "ive"
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      "expansion": "predict + -ive",
      "name": "suf"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.",
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    {
      "form": "predictives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Barbara Dancygier, Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "Also, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, predictive conditionals show a high degree of integration thanks to the patterns of verb forms which are characteristic for predictives and which normally do not mix freely with other, non-predictive forms.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman, page xiv:",
          "text": "In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. \"if it rains, the game will be cancelled\", \"give her an inch and she'll take a mile.\")."
      ],
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          "grammar",
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          "conditional"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. \"if it rains, the game will be cancelled\", \"give her an inch and she'll take a mile.\")."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Statistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Siddhartha Chib, William Griffiths, Bayesian Econometrics, page 160:",
          "text": "However, the posterior predictives combine two sources of information: what we might term the structural effect of WIC participation as well as an unobserved correlation between the errors of the participation and outcome equations.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Simon Farrell, Stephan Lewandowsky, Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior, page 308:",
          "text": "Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "statistics",
          "statistics"
        ],
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          "Simulated",
          "simulated"
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        [
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        ],
        [
          "estimate",
          "estimate"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(statistics) Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences",
        "statistics"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪktɪv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "predictive"
}

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