- retrodict
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retrodict — transitive verb Etymology: retro + predict Date: 1949 to utilize present information or ideas to infer or explain (a past event or state of affairs) < retrodict past eclipses > • retrodiction noun • retrodictive adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
retrodict — Studying past events to predict the future. Using retrodict we can safely say that a meteor will hit the earth some time in the future … Dictionary of american slang
retrodict — Studying past events to predict the future. Using retrodict we can safely say that a meteor will hit the earth some time in the future … Dictionary of american slang
retrodict — verb To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present. Ant: predict See Also: retrodiction … Wiktionary
retrodict — v. use present information or ideas to explain or draw conclusions (about past events or past way of doing things) … English contemporary dictionary
retrodict — … Useful english dictionary
retrodiction — noun see retrodict … New Collegiate Dictionary
retrodictive — adjective see retrodict … New Collegiate Dictionary
Arms race — The term arms race, in its original usage, describes a competition between two or more parties for real or apparent military supremacy. Each party competes to produce larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, or superior military technology in a … Wikipedia
Maximum entropy thermodynamics — In physics, maximum entropy thermodynamics (colloquially, MaxEnt thermodynamics) views equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as inference processes. More specifically, MaxEnt applies inference techniques rooted in Shannon… … Wikipedia
