1. Someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
   "The economic predictor predicted a recession in the coming year";
   - forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer
    
2. Information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events
   "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"
    
3. A computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
   "The military relied on the predictor to improve the accuracy of their antiaircraft defences"

Derived forms: predictors

Type of: computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information, information processing system, seer, visionary

Part of: ack-ack [informal], ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom

Encyclopedia: Predictor