retrodict

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Definition of retrodict

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

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.”

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From retro- + predict.

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