forecasting
forecasting is the present participle and gerund of forecast.
Meaning of forecast
Verb
forecast (third-person singular simple present forecasts, present participle forecasting, simple past and past participle forecast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) forecasted)
- To estimate how something will be in the future.
- to forecast the weather, or a storm
- To foreshadow; to suggest something in advance.
- To contrive or plan beforehand.
- And, if it happen as I did forecaſt, / The dainteſt diſhes ſhall be ſerv'd up laſt.1626 (date written), John Milton, “At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, […]”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], published 1673, →OCLC, page 64
Noun
forecasting (plural forecastings)
- A forecast or prediction.
- There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…]1852, The Dublin University Magazine, page 66
Forms of forecasting
| plural | forecastings |
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Origin of forecasting
From forecast + -ing.
From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.
Words formed from forecasting
Questions about forecasting
- What does forecasting mean?
- Forecasting means a forecast or prediction.
- What is forecasting the present participle and gerund of?
- Forecasting is the present participle and gerund of forecast.
- What part of speech is forecasting?
- Forecasting is a noun.
- What is the plural of forecasting?
- The plural of forecasting is forecastings.
Words near forecasting in the dictionary
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