predictor

[ pri-dik-ter ]

/ prɪˈdɪk tər /

a person or thing that predicts.

Mathematics. a formula for determining additional values or derivatives of a function from the relationship of its given values.

Origin of predictor

From the Medieval Latin word praedictor, dating back to 1645–55. See predict, -tor

Gladwell argues that the quality of the school is less a predictor of individual success than individual merit is.

Malcolm Gladwell In Five Minutes: What to Know to Pretend You’ve Read the New Book |Thomas Flynn |October 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The past is not a predictor of the future and we will need to be ready for the challenges ahead.

Industry Trailblazer to Aspiring Women Pros: Stand Up and Be Counted |Daily Beast Promotions |November 14, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
One predictor of violence within the marriage, however, is a disparity between husband and wife.

Hollywood's Kept Women |Gina Piccalo |October 10, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
Another found them twice as likely to be born below normal weights—itself a predictor of problems later in life.

The Dark Side of IVF |Debora Spar |October 5, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

But we also found that the shape—the roundness—of the pelvic crest was a predictor of breast disease in the daughters.

How Mom's Hip Size Predicts Her Daughter's Risk |Kent L. Thornburg, PhD |October 24, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
But whether he has not been the cause of this poor man's death, as well as the predictor, may be very reasonably disputed.

The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers |Jonathan Swift
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.

The Leader |William Fitzgerald Jenkins (AKA Murray Leinster)
Hooker indeed seemed to have done what no predictor of events should do; he fixed on the period of its accomplishment.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) |Isaac Disraeli
And here we return again to take a new survey of him in the course of his public practice as a predictor.

The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell |Daniel Defoe

predictor

/ (prɪˈdɪktə) /

a person or thing that predicts

an instrument, used in conjunction with an anti-aircraft gun, that determines the speed, distance, height, and direction of hostile aircraft

statistics a more modern term for independent variable