aftcast

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of analysis which takes an event which has already happened, or is assumed to happen, and studies the causes which could have led up to that event. informal
    — We should not be too harsh about forecasters, however; we have the benefit of hindsight now, yet it is not much easier to answer the questions about the past than about the present or future. Postdiction is almost as hard as prediction; aftcasts almost as hard as forecasts.
动词 v.
  1. To make an aftcast. informal
    — Backwards planning relieves you of some of the superhuman assumptions that are involved in traditional forecasting. It substitutes aftcasting for forward planning by causing you to look backwards from your objectives to ask the question: What must have had to have happened in order for each of our successive planned milestones to have been reached?

词形变化

aftcasts plural aftcasts present,singular,third-person aftcasting participle,present aftcast participle,past aftcast past aftcasted common,error-unknown-tag,participle,past,proscribed aftcasted common,error-unknown-tag,past,proscribed,sometimes

词源

词源 1
From aft + cast, modelled on forecast. See fore and aft.
词源 2
From aft + cast, modelled on forecast. See fore and aft.
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