Definition of Prognostics

1. Noun. (plural of prognostic) ¹

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Definition of Prognostics

1. prognostic [n] - See also: prognostic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prognostics

prognosing
prognosis
prognostic
prognosticable
prognostically
prognosticate
prognosticated
prognosticates
prognosticating
prognostication
prognostications
prognosticative
prognosticator
prognosticators
prognostick
prognostics (current term)
progradations
prograde
prograded
progrades
program
program counter
program counters
program evaluation and review technique
program evaluation review technique
program guide
program guides
program library
program line

Literary usage of Prognostics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"We should also note that, though the general principles of prognostics and the broad features of the weather in each of these-shapes of isobars are the same ..."

2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"prognostics derived from the sun 77. The laying out of lands according to the ... prognostics derived from thunder 82. prognostics derived from clouds 83. ..."

3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Recipes from the ancients, prognostics from dreams, Charms, &c. moon, and from the stars, are also to be found prognostics, fr°m thunder, from the age and ..."

4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Recipes from the ancients, prognostics from dreams, Charms, &c. moon, and from the stars, are also to be found prognostics, ^rora thunder, from the age and ..."

5. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1859)
"If, in a calm and smooth sea, we espy froth here and there, or white circles or bubbles of water, they are prognostics of winds ; and if these presages be ..."

6. Meteors, Aërolites, Storms, and Atmospheric Phenomena: From the French of by Zurcher, Frederic Zurcher, Élie Margollé, William Lackland (1876)
"Foretelling the Weather. — Orpheus, Homer, Hesiod, Virgil.—prognostics furnished by Animals.—prognostics from Plants, and from the State of the Sky. ..."

7. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER VI ASTROLOGY AND WEATHER prognostics 1. I HAVE shown how the firmament, and the twelve signs with the constellations arranged to the north and south ..."

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