Meaning of aftcast | Babel Free

Definitions

A kind of analysis which takes an event which has already happened, or is assumed to happen, and studies the causes which could have led up to that event.

informal

Examples

“We should not be too harsh about forecasters, however; we have the benefit of hindsight now, yet it is not much easier to answer the questions about the past than about the present or future. Postdiction is almost as hard as prediction; aftcasts almost as hard as forecasts.”

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