Noun Definition

predictor

1.Definition: a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival

Category: Objects

2.Definition: information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events

"The weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"

Category: General

3.Definition: someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

Related Noun(s):forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer

Category: People