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- noun The characteristic of being
predictable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being predictable
Etymologies
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Examples
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The future exchange exists as a central place for folks that have real goods to exchange -- the cash market -- to obtain predictability and certainty about the gains or losses from making a cash trade today that has a future delivery date.
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I am, however, not the type of person who believes that predictability is at all a bad thing.
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Out of the 25,000 apps up there, if I recall, less than 1% are making recurring revenue and predictability is low (whoever thought farting is a good idea to make money).
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This is a key problem in predictability of weather beyond about a week, and a major factor in the regional differences in climate variations within the overall climate change trends.
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This is a key problem in predictability of weather beyond about a week, and a major factor in the regional differences in climate variations within the overall climate change trends.
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Business can be run comfortably within the law, and predictability is the friend to any business.
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Doctors are selling because complying with the ever-growing list of mandates has become more cumbersome; and while staff physicians on salary do gain predictability, they also lose the autonomy of independent practice.
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This is a key problem in predictability of weather beyond about a week, and a major factor in the regional differences in climate variations within the overall climate change trends.
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He's joined by Rep. Darrell Issa, who says the compromise is "an incomplete effort that fails to create a permanent tax structure giving businesses the kind of long-term predictability needed to support investment, economic growth and job creation."
Why the tax deal might fail Ezra Klein 2010
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Precision and predictability is important for crafters.
Weight Versus Volume Anne-Marie 2008
Related Words
synonyms (37)
Words with the same meaning
- authenticity
- authoritativeness
- calculability
- dependability
- divinability
- faithworthiness
- firmness
- foreknowableness
- foreseeability
- foretellableness
- frequency curve
- frequency distribution
- game theory
- invincibility
- mathematical probability
- operations research
- probability theory
- probable error
- quantum mechanics
- reliability
- secureness
- security
- solidity
- soundness
- stability
- standard deviation
- statistical mechanics
- statistical probability
- statistics
- staunchness
- steadfastness
- steadiness
- substantiality
- trustworthiness
- uncertainty principle
- unerringness
- validity
hypernyms (3)
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hyponyms (2)
Words more specific or concrete
same context (25)
Words that are found in similar contexts
- Biloxi
- congruity
- cost-efficiency
- dependability
- durability
- evenness
- interoperability
- maintainability
- manageability
- measurability
- permanency
- phonology
- portability
- prickliness
- reliability
- repeatability
- reproducibility
- responsiveness
- robustness
- scalability
- self-reinforcing
- thermodynamics
- timeliness
- toughness
- usability
rhymes (66)
Words with the same terminal sound
- accessibility
- advisability
- availability
- believability
- collectibility
- comparability
- convertibility
- credibility
- culpability
- deniability
- dependability
- desirability
- disability
- durability
- eligibility
- enforceability
- facility
- fallibility
- favorability
- fertility
- flammability
- gentility
- gullibility
- humility
- immobility
- impossibility
- inability
- incivility
- incompatibility
- indestructibility
- inevitability
- infallibility
- infertility
- inflexibility
- instability
- invincibility
- invulnerability
- liability
- maneuverability
- marketability
- miscibility
- mobility
- motility
- nonutility
- permeability
- plausibility
- portability
- profitability
- readability
- respectability
- sensibility
- stability
- sterility
- suitability
- survivability
- sustainability
- taxability
- tranquility
- transferability
- unavailability
- unpredictability
- unprofitability
- unreliability
- variability
- visibility
- vulnerability
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