visionary(ABLE TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE)
used to describe a computer system that predicts what is wanted or needed:
Predictive word processors are useful for those who have trouble with typing or spelling.
Predictive cruise control uses GPS technology to determine the exact position of the vehicle and to know which driving conditions have to be taken into account.
Models are useful predictive devices.
A poll is not supposed to be a predictive tool.
Most predictive computer packages have to be programmed to decipher particular data.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Predicting things and intuition
augur
augury
bellwether
betcha
bode
herald
horizon scanning
hunch
inkling
instinct
premonition
premonitory
presage
prescience
prescient
telepathy
there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
unforeseeable
unintuitively
unreasoning

Examples of predictive

predictive
For example, a no boundary extension rule would result in more accurate representations but in less predictive coverage.
Few shading experiments have provided the absolute measures of both incident radiation and crop structure necessary to develop a predictive approach.
The conceptual definitions and targeting criteria proposed by this working group should then be tested in large-scale prospective studies to evaluate their predictive value.
Regression trees were originally used to generate predictive models of regression estimates.
By means of cooperating with the virtual robot, predictive display control method can eliminate the affection of time-delay and improve the maneuverability and the safety.
The predictive validity of latent pure short-term memory capacity would provide important progress toward understanding the biologically primary factors that influence variability in math skills.
Second, we wanted to ascertain the power of maternal depression by assessing its continuing predictive role in the presence of later socialization influences.
The model might be used for predictive purposes depending on the precision required.
Teacher-rated academic per formance in sixth grade was not predictive of discordant cases in any of the three trajectory classes.
Either method would disallow a wrong prediction of factoring out a predictive auxiliary tree when extracting from a subject, for instance.
The predictive power of the models is again quite similar although less robust in both cases than for the 1959-60 data.
While amendments (often ad hoc) are possible to improve the predictive content of this theory16, compare the predictions which emerge when there is preference endogeneity.
It was during this interval that features of maternal verbal interactions became predictive of children's lexical gains.
However, since this regression is being used merely for predictive purposes, issues of endogeneity are of no importance.
Advances and continuing challenges in achieving realistic and predictive simulations of the properties of organic and biological molecules.
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