Predictor in a sentence as a noun

In such cases, the extra branch just won't be tracked by the predictor.

Not that that is a perfect predictor of success.

My take is this: any way to deceive that predictor is cheating.

In this case, the drug doesn't fool the predictor, it actually helps being a little smarter in the long term.

The best predictor of future income is parental income.

The past is not always a good predictor of the future, but I think 10 years ago most people would have said that PC hardware was commoditized.

According to research, what is the strongest predictor of a person seeing her work as a calling?The number of years spent on the job.

It is the latter attitude that I find the best predictor of whether there's going to be endless frustration at a company.

By this analysis, nootropics are cheating only to the extent they deceive the predictor.

Summing up the meeting, Barberi said, "there is no reason to believe that a swarm of minor events is a sure predictor of a major shock".

" The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

They found that the best predictor of programmer performance was the performance of another programmer at the same company.

From the abstract:Two years ago we appeared to have discovered an exciting and enigmatic new predictor of success in a first programming course.

'Human powered' is a good predictor of 'solar powered' since the total energy extractable from humans per pound payload is lower than solar.

I'm not sure if most of the commentators here are joking or just being too subtly sarcastic, but truly the best predictor of a person's success is the success of his parents during his formative years.

"FTA: "“The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories,” says Viren Swami, a psychology professor who studies conspiracy belief at the University of Westminster in England.

Predictor definitions

noun

someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

See also: forecaster prognosticator soothsayer

noun

information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"

noun

a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival