"retrodict" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From retro- + predict.",
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      "form": "retrodicts",
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    {
      "form": "retrodicting",
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      "form": "retrodicted",
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    {
      "form": "retrodicted",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2013, Jamie Whyte, The Wall Street Journal, Jamie Whyte: Science Says So, Suckers!:",
          "text": "Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can \"retrodict\" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present."
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          "estimate",
          "estimate"
        ],
        [
          "previous",
          "previous"
        ],
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          "present",
          "present"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "retrodiction"
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  "word": "retrodict"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From retro- + predict.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "retrodicts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "retrodicting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "retrodicted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "retrodicted",
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          "text": "Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can \"retrodict\" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present."
      ],
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          "estimate",
          "estimate"
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          "previous",
          "previous"
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  "word": "retrodict"
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