forecasting

Etymology 1

From forecast + -ing.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of forecast

Etymology 2

From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.

noun

  1. A forecast or prediction.
    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

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