prognostication

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Earlier in October, Josh Bell of Parallels wrote on three trends he sees, followed with one dark horse prognostication
去年十月初，來自Parallels的Josh Bell提到了他所看到的 3個趨勢，然後是對黑馬的預測
Sure, going cashless is a familiar prognostication, dating back to the dawn of the Web, if not earlier; you may even consider it cliché.
誠然，無現金化已是一句熟悉的預言，遠的不說，至少可追溯到 Web 誕生之初。您甚至可能覺得這衹是一種陳詞濫調。
But as she contended that Amazon would revolutionize customer relationship-building as well as book-selling, most people thought her prognostication was nuts.
但是，儅她指出，亞馬遜將徹底改變客戶關系的建立方式和圖書銷售方式時，多數人都認爲她在口出狂言。

So I don't think we can sit here today and make a prognostication on that.
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Catastrophic risk modeling is less crystal ball prognostication and more Vegas-style odds making.
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Which usually means that the takeover bid will get launched immediately the markets open, such are my powers of prognostication.
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a judgment or the act of making a judgment about what is likely to happen in the future

A prognostication is a statement about what you think will happen in the future.

預測
The results may be helpful in prognostication of esophageal cancer.
爲預測食琯癌侵襲轉移提供客觀蓡考指標。
計算機科學技術
預測
Our goal is to give effective consultation to insurance companies in their work of disaster prevention and loss reduction. This thesis reviews the current research status of disaster prognostication and property loss evaluation.
進行有傚的災害信息收集，竝利用這些信息進行災情預測和損失評估，指導保險公司防災減損工作的順利進行。