forecasting
noun
- process of making predictions of the future based on past and present data and most commonly by analysis of trends
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.
- A forecast or prediction.
“There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…]”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English forecast English -ing English forecasting From forecast + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of forecast