forecasting

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

forecasting
    n 1: a statement made about the future [syn: {prediction},
         {foretelling}, {forecasting}, {prognostication}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

forecasting \fore"cast*ing\ n.
   The process of calculating and predicting future events,
   usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with
   varying degress of uncertainty.

   Syn: prediction, foretelling.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "forecasting":
      actuarial prediction, aerography, aerology, anemology, apocalypse,
      barometry, climatography, climatology, foreboding, forecast,
      foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, guesswork, improbability,
      long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology,
      omen, pneumatics, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement,
      prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing,
      presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise,
      prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, soothsay, speculation,
      statistical prediction, vaticination, weatherology