predictor

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
• Syn:
forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer
• Derivationally related forms:
prognosticate (for: prognosticator), predict, forecast (for: forecaster)
• Hypernyms:
visionary, illusionist, seer
• Hyponyms:
astrologer, astrologist, fortuneteller, fortune teller
2. information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events
- the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance
• Hypernyms:
information
3. a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
• Hypernyms:
computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
• Part Holonyms:
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom,
ack-ack, ack-ack gun

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer