Definition of predictive
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: of, relating to, or usable or valuable for prediction
- predictive medical factors
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: based on or generated by using methods of prediction
- predictive models
- predictive text
- Usually predictive policing refers to feeding reams of city data into a computer and dispatching extra officers to areas that are deemed to be at high risk of future crime.
- —Leon Neyfakh
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predictively
adverb-
- Like an astrological chart, it can be made to fit any case, and it works better retrospectively than predictively.
- —Carol Tavris
