- 1可預測性（有時暗示太好猜、沒新意）
Predictability is the fact that you can already see what will happen, or what someone will do. A machine, a story, or a friend’s habits can have predictability if they follow a clear pattern. In science and engineering the word is often a compliment: people want predictability in a bridge or in a test. Though actually, in everyday talk it can carry a little . If you complain about the predictability of a film, you mean it was too easy to see coming, and that made it dull. So the same noun can praise order or sigh at a lack of surprise. It names the quality; the person or thing that is easy to guess is predictable.
組成From predict + -ability (‘the quality of being able to be…’).
同家族的字
- predictthe verb this noun is built from
- predictablethe adjective: easy to see coming
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
predictabilitynoun/pɹəˌdɪktəˈbɪlɪti/
- 1
The characteristic of being predictable.
- There are several ways to approach predictability. One way is to investigate whether asset prices over the past few days or weeks can be used to predict tomorrow’s price. The answer is no. Following a large amount of careful statistical work by Fama in the 1960s, researchers now agree that past prices are of very little use in predicting returns over the immediate future. [...] An implication of the excessive swings in stock prices is that a high ratio of price relative to dividends in one year will tend to be followed by a fall in prices relative to dividends over subsequent years, and vice versa. This means that returns follow a predictable pattern in the longer run. Shiller and his collaborators demonstrated such predictability in stock markets as well as bond markets, and other researchers have later confirmed this finding in many other markets.
- England's fans responded by loudly rallying to Maguire's cause but there was a grim predictability about what happened in the 67th minute, the defender lazily sticking out a leg to divert Robertson's cross past helpless keeper Aaron Ramsdale.
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