forecasting
English
Etymology 1
From forecast + -ing.
Verb
forecasting
- present participle of forecast
Etymology 2
From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.
Noun
forecasting (plural forecastings)
- A forecast or prediction.
- 1852, The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
- 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 […]
- 1852, The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
Derived terms
- normative forecasting
- weather forecasting