precise prediction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreciseandprediction
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precise
adjective
uk/prɪˈsaɪs/us/prəˈsaɪs/
exact ...
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prediction
noun[C or U]
uk/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/us/prɪˈdɪk.ʃən/
a statement about what you think will happen in ...
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Even the mostprecisepredictiontable or equation would vastly and unacceptably overpredict in this case.
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It is very difficult to provide aprecisepredictionof subsequent development of cerebral palsy after a given antepartum event or complication.
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For field 6, the weighted average vector is close to thepreciseprediction, but the vectors are very small.
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Second, chaos theory recognizes the existence of systems whose behaviour, although determined, is so sensitive to initial conditions that anyprecisepredictionof their behaviour is impossible.
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The only areas in which we had difficulties were in theprecisepredictionof the effect of radiocaesium in a particular mixture in particular circumstances.
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Anybody who makes aprecisepredictionabout the precise month would be very reckless indeed.
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It is therefore difficult to give aprecisepredictionof the date, but we hope that it will be soon.
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Against that background, it would be foolish to attempt to make anyprecisepredictionabout the timing of sterling's entry.
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It is not possible to make that sort ofpreciseprediction.
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I cannot make a veryprecisepredictionon that.
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I cannot give him aprecisepredictionabout that either.
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The method has wide applicability inprecisepredictionof electronic transitions, particularly lower singlet transitions, and found wide application in theoretical and applied quantum chemistry.
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This means that the model does not really make precise predictions about which word is fixated.
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The final-state particles generated by event generators can be fed into the detector simulation, allowing aprecisepredictionand verification for the entire system of experimental setup.
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For this reason, precise predictions of limit cycle frequencies are not now possible.
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In order to arrive at empirically more precise predictions the theory must take into account both criticisms.
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The results provide precise predictions for analyses of survey data for selectively neutral loci in natural populations with a given dispersal level.
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It also means that it is impossible to make precise predictions for any one species in a particular situation.
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When conducting these tasks, people do not have precise predictions of the effects of their decisions.
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Note that the use of the translation recognition task does not permit precise predictions regarding the effects of direction of translation.
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