retrodict

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From retro- + predict .

retrodict (third-person singular simple present retrodicts , present participle retrodicting , simple past and past participle retrodicted )

1. To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.
   • 2013, Jamie Whyte, The Wall Street Journal, Jamie Whyte: Science Says So, Suckers!‎^[1] :

     Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data from the less-distant past (say, from the 1920s). They should not be.

• predict

• retrodiction

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