Forecasting

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A forecast or prediction.

    "There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…]"

  2. 2
    a statement made about the future wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of forecast form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From forecast + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.

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