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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a statement made about the future;
[syn: prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

forecasting \fore"cast*ing\ n. The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty. Syn: prediction, foretelling. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

forecasting n 1: a statement made about the future [syn: prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "forecasting": actuarial prediction, aerography, aerology, anemology, apocalypse, barometry, climatography, climatology, foreboding, forecast, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, guesswork, improbability, long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology, omen, pneumatics, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, vaticination, weatherology