If you make a prediction about something, you say what you think will happen. He was unwilling to make a prediction about which books would sell in the coming year Weather prediction has never been a perfect science. a statement about what you think is going to happen, or the act of making this statement prediction of
A learning strategy that involves taking information gained from listening or reading, identifying questions that emerge, and then guessing the answers before the answers are apparent Prediction can facilitate understanding and remembering
Prediction is defined as Use of a CFD model to foretell the state of a physical system under conditions for which the CFD model has not been validated (AIAA G-077-1998)
of tides: The mathematical process in which the values of the basic harmonic constituents for a given location are projected into the future, and their amplitudes added for any given time to obtain the predicted tidal height; nowadays performed mostly by computers; mechanical tide predicting machines having been used frequently in the past See also Fourier series
A specific statement about a future condition Usually made by non-experts (who would like to add qualifications or ranges) An example would be "who is going to win the football game this week"
Forecast or extrapolation of the future state of a system from current or past states
the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) a statement made about the future
An indication in advance based on observation, experience, or scientific reason (A state in advance as to what one believes will happen, a foretelling )