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aftercast

aftercast noun: a consequence or result. Also the alternative form of after-cast.

Noun

aftercast (plural aftercasts)

  1. A consequence or result.
    • Consulting that strong propensity to immediate gain, whatever may be the aftercast, which governs princes as well as other men, they hesitated not to predict, that the court of Berlin would seize with avidity that portion of Poland which Russia would offer to it, as the price of its dereliction of...1795, “History of Europe”, in The Annual Register, volume 37, page 14
    • The aftercast of the doctors' futile opiates were generally the worst phenomena; I remember her once coming out to the drawing-room sofa, perhaps about midnight; decided for trying that.1881, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Lord Jeffrey, page 265
  2. An analysis of past events; retrodiction or review.
    • His forecast and aftercast ought both to be employed in building the all-important structure of his character, because that character is to last for ever. Holy Scripture, which is sound reason taught and sanctoined by God Himself, rcommends the same aftercast as well as forethought.1844, John Bullar, Lay Lectures on Christian Faith and Practice, page 140
    • He would risk no aftercast, make no reproach; yet there was strange longin in him to make audible some small part of the anguish of his soul.1876, Stephen Yorke (pseud. for Mary Linskill), Cleveden, page 143
    1. An analysis of past meteorological data to determine what the weather was like at a previous time.
      • An aftercast of the weather indicated that at the time of the accident the ceiling and visibility in the vicinity of Ptarmigan Mountain was unlimited.1941, Accident Investigation Report, page 2
      • On October 15, 1956, an aftercast was made by the U. S. Weather Bureau Airport Station at Anchorage, Alaska.1955, Aircraft Accident Report, page 3

Also used as

aftercast is also the alternative form of after-cast.

Examples of aftercast in a sentence

  • He who forecasts his own failure has failed in advance, for forecast is the pattern of the aftercast.1912, Orison Swett Marden, “Why Men Fail”, in Banker and Investor Magazine, page 37:
  • Thus, prediction is similar to forecast which is usually based upon aftercast.2015, H.J. Hsia, Mass Communications Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Approach:
  • Five stations did this, and the results were called aftercasts.1968, Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, page 111:
  • After several emails to and telephone conversations involving the Met Office and AAIB, I finally get a copy of the Aftercast report, which the Met Office provides free of charge.2021, Michelle Bray, Falling From the Sky:

Forms of aftercast

pluralaftercasts

Origin of aftercast

From after- + cast.

Questions about aftercast

What does aftercast mean?
Aftercast means a consequence or result.
How do you use aftercast in a sentence?
He who forecasts his own failure has failed in advance, for forecast is the pattern of the aftercast.
What part of speech is aftercast?
Aftercast is a noun.
What is the plural of aftercast?
The plural of aftercast is aftercasts.

Words near aftercast in the dictionary

  1. aftercall
  2. aftercalls
  3. aftercare
  4. aftercareer
  5. aftercareers
  6. aftercast
  7. aftercastle
  8. aftercastles
  9. aftercasts
  10. aftercataract
  11. aftercataracts

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