PREDICTIVELY

Etymology

Adverb

predictively (comparative more predictively, superlative most predictively)

In the manner of something that attempts or succeeds in predicting, anticipating or expecting.

The computer program predictively scheduled the number of employees we'd need each day of the year based on past workloads.

Source: Wiktionary


PREDICTIVE

Pre*dict"ive, a. Etym: [L. praedictivus.]

Definition: Foretelling; prophetic; foreboding.

– Pre*dict"ive*ly, adv.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SYCAMORE

(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn


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The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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