(n.) The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(3) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
(4) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(6) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(7) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(8) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(9) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
(10) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(14) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(15) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(16) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
(17) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(18) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
(19) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(20) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
Premonition
Definition:
(n.) Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
(2) Yuri's gaze turns back to the sky, peppered now with dry fallen leaves (a premonition, perhaps, of the petals cast before the viceroy in A Passage to India).
(3) The event begins with a premonition of what will happen from a street name.
(4) His distorted image presented in court reflected what some of his accusers were, and what others took to be a premonition of the fall that was coming now that sex, like an Edenic apple, had been tasted for the first time in all its polymorphous perversity.Writing of the effects of liberalising legislation on abortion, gay sex and the reduction of censorship in the 60s, Andrew Marr in A History of Modern Britain stresses this lapsarian image: "A fair verdict is that the changes allowed the British to be more openly themselves, and that while the results are not pretty, the apple of self-knowledge cannot be uneaten again and returned to the tree."
(5) Premonition’s technology can optimise large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real-time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination and consumer requests such as redirected parcels.
(6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
(7) We thought it was a little film for kids: we had absolutely no premonition of the success it would have.
(8) Zero carbon emissions target to be enshrined in UK law Read more Premonition is working with close to a dozen Australian clients, including several “household names” with fleets in the range of 2,000-plus vehicles, according to Lorge.
(9) He conceded that his mother had gone a little off the rails towards the end of her life by taking up with swamis and yogis and consulting astrologers (she had premonitions, correctly, of a violent death), but she had brought him up to be agnostic and "secular", a word that in India has to bear too much hope.
(10) To realistically expand into this domain and have a meaningful impact, Premonition will need to expand its team of nine employees.
(11) Back in July, 21 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a skirmish near the Libyan border, in what some considered a premonition of what may be to come.
(12) Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been reported since the Renaissance.
(13) Today, mobile consumers want to be in control, they want to see and understand what’s happening with their delivery in real time, and they want more options and flexibility about when and where their delivery will arrive.” Premonition’s tools help shipping companies communicate directly with consumers and hit tighter delivery windows, with some clients providing windows inside 30 minutes.
(14) It shows the virgin with Christ in her lap, but it's a premonition of the Pietà .
(15) Various functions of the ego influence how time is experienced consciously, leading to phenomena such as déjà vu, a sensation of timelessness, misjudgment of time duration, the experience of premonition.
(16) Fits and coronary thrombosis, of which drivers frequently had some premonition, caused few serious accidents, although the latter was usually lethal.
(17) IBM is testing a robot concierge in a Hilton hotel , something that is both a gimmick and a premonition.
(18) I think it might have been a premonition on her part.
(19) He says Premonition’s approach is to think “about logistics as a service to consumers rather than just a network of trucks”.
(20) The wintry scene outside her window that morning, Wadley told the newsroom, had prompted a premonition: "I thought, 'the Russians really are coming'."