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Definition: Prevision |
PrevisionNoun1. A prophetic vision (as in a dream). 2. The power to foresee the future. 3. Knowing in advance; foreseeing. 4. The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prevision" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
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Statistics | A comprehensive term introduced by the Finetti that for random variables in general is synonymous with mathematical expectation, and in the particular case of random events means probability. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PrevisionSynonyms: anticipation (n), foresight (n), prediction (n), prescience (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Foresight | Noun: foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence; (preparation). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Language | Translations for "prevision"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | profeci (augury, auspice, prediction, prophecy, vaticination, weird), parashikim (anticipation, contemplation, dope, foreboding, forecast, foresight, precaution, prediction, prescience, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, vision), parandjenjë (feeling, foreboding, misdoubt, presage, prescience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بصيرة (discernment, foresight, judgement, sagacity, sight, vision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | предчувствувам (anticipate, divine, feel, forebode, presage, sense), предчувствие (augury, divination, hunch, precognition, premonition, presage, presentiment), предвиждане (expectation, forecast, foreknowledge, planning, prediction, prescience), предвиждам (calculate, divine, envisage, forecast, foresee, intend, plan, previse, provide, provide for, second-guess, see beyond). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sandsynlighed (probability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | previsie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | odotusarvo (expectation, expected value, mathematical expectation, population mean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prévision (projection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorhersehung, Vorhersage (forecast, prediction, prognosis, projection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόβλεψη (anticipation, contemplation, forecast, foresight, outlook, prediction, provision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megsejtés (augury, divining, forecast, prescience), jóslás (divining, forecast, message, prediction, prognostication, soothsaying), elõrelátás (discretion, forecast, foresight, forethought, Providence), előrelátás (anticipation, forecast, foresight, forethought, prescience, providence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | previsione (anticipation, auspice, calculation, expectation, forecast, foreknowledge, foresight, foresightedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evisionpray previsão (forecast, foreknow, forethought), conhecimento antecipado (foresight). (various references) profeţie (oracle, prediction), previziune (anticipation, foresight), prevedere (augury, care, discretion, forecast, foreknowledgement, foresight, forethought, precaution, Providence, provision, prudence). (various references) предвидение (anticipation, clairvoyance, foreknowledge, prescience). (various references) predviđanje (anticipation, auspice, divination, foreknowledge, foresight). (various references) previsión (anticipation, farsightedness, forecast, foresight, forethought, Providence, thoughtfulness). (various references) förutseende (anticipative, anticipatory, far sighted, farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresight, forethought, forethoughtful, forward-looking, long sighted, provident, wise), föraning (divination, foreboding, hunch, premonition). (various references) передбачення (auspice, forecast, foreknowledge, foresight, precognition, prediction, prescience, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication). (various references) sự thấy trước (foresight, prescience), sự đoán trước (anticipation, prediction, prognostication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "prevision": previsional, previsionary, previsioned, previsioning, previsions. (additional references) | |
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"Prevision" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pervyshin, Trevisano. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "prevision" (pronounced 'Pre*vi"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: overspin, revision, ripienos. | |
-2 letters: inspire, ironies, ivories, noisier, orpines, privies, renvois, ripieno, sinopie, spinier, version, virions. | |
-3 letters: envois, ionise, irones, nosier, opines, orpine, orpins, ovines, person, pinier, poiser, ponies, prions, prison, proven, proves, renvoi, repins, ripens, senior, sniper, spinor, vinier, vipers, vireos, virion, vision. | |
-4 letters: envoi, eosin, irone, irons, ivies, nisei, noirs, noise, noris. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: previsions. | |
+2 letters: preinvasion, previsional, previsioned, provisioned, provisioner, reprovision, silverpoint, supervision, voiceprints. | |
+3 letters: deprivations, irresponsive, overpraising, overslipping, previsionary, previsioning, provisioners, reprovisions, silverpoints, supervisions. | |
+4 letters: impoverishing, improvidences, introspective, nondispersive, nondisruptive, nonpermissive, overpromising, pretelevision, reprovisioned, vituperations. | |
+5 letters: contrapositive, imperviousness, impoverishment, nondescriptive, overimpressing, picornaviruses, preconvictions, prerevisionist, prevarications, provincializes, pulverizations, reprovisioning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 76 69 73 69 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e v i s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0076 0069 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508471887585758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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