- forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer - someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
--1 is a kind of visionary, illusionist, seer
--1 has particulars: astrologer, astrologist; fortuneteller, fortune tellerDerived form: verb predict1 - predictor - information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events; "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"
--2 is a kind of information
- predictor - a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
--3 is a kind of computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
--3 is a part ofantiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun - predictor - a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival