prevision
IPA: privˈɪʒʌn
noun
- Advance knowledge; foresight.
- A prediction.
verb
- To predict or envision the future.
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Examples of "prevision" in Sentences
- I like the idea of a separate article on prevision...
- Uncertainty, imprecision and prevision are handled using specialized fields.
- The author interviewed 12 architects before he found one who understood his need for prevision.
- It is a personal sense of achievement that one had the prevision, just like buying a share, whose price soars.
- Hobart Flail, who implied that he had the gift of prevision, was always making such forecasts, but in a sadistic manner, as though thrashing us.
- But Agno was a chill-blooded philosopher and bided his time, being different from Jerry in that he possessed human prevision and could adjust his actions to remote ends.
- What so baffles our prevision is the shifting part played by the margin and focus -- in fact, by each element by itself of the margin or focus -- in calling up the next ideas.
- But the decorum of yesteryear was, such that if one were known to be awkward with little ones or to abhor pets, prevision would be made to keep a valued guest's discomfort or annoyance at a minimum.
- Whatever was done was the completion of previous government plans, no new investment, no consideration for population growth and what is worse, no prevision to fight a new El Niño effect already felt in 2003-2004.
- But however this may be, it is clear that as fast as the notion of equality gained definiteness, so fast did that lowest kind of quantitative prevision which is achieved without any instrumental aid, become possible.
- Smart Grid technology is used by electricity utilities for grid management applications such as outage prevision and management, advanced metering, preventive maintenance, asset management and optimisation and load management and control.