retrodict

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To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.

"Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be."

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin retrōder. English retro- English predict English retrodict From retro- + predict.

retrodicts (present, singular) retrodicting (participle, present) retrodicted (participle, past) retrodicted (past)

retrodiction

predict

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What does retrodict mean?

To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.

Where does retrodict come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin retrōder. English retro- English predict English retrodict From retro- + predict.

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