prognostics

Noun

prognostic (plural prognostics)

1. (rare) prognosis
   • There are several opinions as to what he meant
     But no one considers it a happy prognostic.1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I
2. A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
   • Careful observers may foretell the hour
     (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
     While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
     Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.1710, Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower

   Synonyms:

   indication, sign, omen, foretelling, prediction

3. A prediction of the future.
   • The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
4. One who predicts the future.

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