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Predictive means ‘about showing what is likely to happen later.’ It describes a tool, a test, a model, or a kind of information that points ahead. Predictive text on a phone tries to guess your next word. A predictive test in a hospital estimates risk, not a result that has already arrived. The word is at home in science, medicine, and technology, and it is fairly formal. Though actually, students mix it with predictable. A predictable person is easy to guess. A predictive system is built to forecast. One is about being obvious; the other is about the job of looking forward.
預測的；預測性的（如手機的預測輸入）
組成Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico ‘I say beforehand.’ In English it also reads as predict + -ive.
同家族的字
- predictequivalent to predict + -ive
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
predictiveadj/pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/
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Useful in predicting.
- The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
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computingengineeringmathematicsDescribing a predictor.
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medicinesciencesExpressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
predictivenoun/pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").
- Also, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, predictive conditionals show a high degree of integration thanks to the patterns of verb forms which are characteristic for predictives and which normally do not mix freely with other, non-predictive forms.
- In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsSimulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
- However, the posterior predictives combine two sources of information: what we might term the structural effect of WIC participation as well as an unobserved correlation between the errors of the participation and outcome equations.
- Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。