aftcast
aftcast noun: 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.
Noun
aftcast (plural aftcasts)
- 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.
- 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.1977, Ithiel de Sola Pool, Craig Decker, Stephen Dizard, Kay Israel, Pamela Rubin, Barry Weinstein, “Foresight and Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone”, in Ithiel de Sola Pool, editor, The Social...
Verb
aftcast (third-person singular simple present aftcasts, present participle aftcasting, simple past and past participle aftcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) aftcasted)
- To make an aftcast.
- 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...1992, Mack Hanan, Profits Without Products: How to Transform Your Product Business Into a Service, New York, N.Y. […]: Amacom, →ISBN, page 80
Forms of aftcast
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | aftcasts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | aftcasts |
| present participle | aftcasting |
| past participle | aftcast |
| past | aftcast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | aftcasted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | aftcasted |
Origin of aftcast
From aft + cast, modelled on forecast. See fore and aft.
Questions about aftcast
- What does aftcast mean?
- Aftcast means 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.
- What part of speech is aftcast?
- Aftcast can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of aftcast?
- The plural of aftcast is aftcasts.
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