retrodict
English
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Verb
[edit]retrodict (third-person singular simple present retrodicts, present participle retrodicting, simple past and past participle retrodicted)
- To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.
- 2013, Jamie Whyte, The Wall Street Journal, “Jamie Whyte: Science Says So, Suckers!”, in wsj.com[1]:
- 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.