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A predictor is something that helps you tell what is coming. Very often it is not a person at all. In science, medicine, and the news it is usually a fact, a number, or a habit that tends to go with a later result: little sleep can be a predictor of poor test scores; last month’s sales can be a predictor of this month’s. A person whose work is to forecast — for weather, money, or sport — can also be called a predictor, but everyday English more often says for people. The ending -or means ‘someone or something that does this.’
預測因子；據以判斷未來的事物（不一定指「預測的人」）
組成From predict + -or (‘someone or something that does this’).
同家族的字
- predictthe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料3 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。
predictornoun/pɹɪˈdɪk.tə/
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Something that anticipates, predicts, or foretells.
- The rainfall in April is a predictor for the number of mosquitoes in May.
- The predictor in the traffic-light control circuit tries to figure out how fast to change the lights.
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A predictor variable.
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One who predicts.
- THE only individual in this great city who has had a really easy time is the weather predictor; his only task from day to day has been to announce rain and gales, and through it all he has readily ranked as a prophet with honor in […]
- The “Annual Register” for 1809 contains an extract from a remarkable letter, dated Bath, April 2nd, in which the writer describes the effects of an extraordinary panic arising from a supposed prophecy of the end of the world. The account is headed “Bath Credulity,” and the writer states:—“[…] Some affirmed that Joanna Southcott was the predictor, others that it was a prophet now living at Midford, near this city, who was with Noah in the Ark, and has been travelling over various parts of the world ever since; but the greater part affixed the name of a female fortune-teller residing at Bath.[…],” etc.
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。