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，来自Parallels的Josh Bell提到了他所看到的 3个趋势，然后是对黑马的预测
Sure, going cashless is a familiar prognostication, dating back to the dawn of the Web, if not earlier; you may even consider it cliché.
诚然，无现金化已是一句熟悉的预言，远的不说，至少可追溯到 Web 诞生之初。您甚至可能觉得这只是一种陈词滥调。
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，当她指出，亚马逊将彻底改变客户关系的建立方式和图书销售方式时，多数人都认为她在口出狂言。

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.

预测
The results may be helpful in prognostication of esophageal cancer.
为预测食管癌侵袭转移提供客观参考指标。
计算机科学技术
预测
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.
进行有效的灾害信息收集，并利用这些信息进行灾情预测和损失评估，指导保险公司防灾减损工作的顺利进行。