retrodict

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.
    — 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.

词形变化

retrodicts present,singular,third-person retrodicting participle,present retrodicted participle,past retrodicted past

词汇关系

反义词
predict

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Italic *wretrō
Latin retrōder.
English retro-
English predict
English retrodict
From retro- + predict.
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