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nowcasted

nowcasted is the simple past and past participle of nowcast.

Meaning of nowcast

Verb

nowcast (third-person singular simple present nowcasts, present participle nowcasting, simple past and past participle nowcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) nowcasted)

  1. (transitive) To predict the weather for a very short upcoming period (usually a few hours).
    • If the nowcasted or forecasted rainfall depth is greater than the FFG, then flooding in the basin is considered likely.2017, Nicolas R. Dalezios, Environmental Hazards Methodologies for Risk Assessment and Management, page 169
  2. (transitive) To estimate what is currently happening based on knowledge of how data is biased.
    • The indices are nowcasted at a very low level, meaning thousands of nowcasts. Attention has been focuesed on the nowcasts that fail validation checks.2010, Economic & Labour Market Review - Volume 4, Issues 1-6, page 33

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Questions about nowcasted

What is nowcasted the simple past and past participle of?
Nowcasted is the simple past and past participle of nowcast.

Words near nowcasted in the dictionary

  1. Nowata
  2. Nowata County
  3. noway
  4. noways
  5. nowcast
  6. nowcasted
  7. nowcasting
  8. nowcasts
  9. nowch
  10. nowches
  11. nowd

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