| 释义 |
predictable, a.|prɪˈdɪktəb(ə)l|
[f. predict v. + -able.]
Capable of being predicted or foretold.
1857Buckle Civiliz. I. i. 6 Every generation demonstrates some events to be regular and predictable, which the preceding generation had declared to be irregular and unpredictable. 1889Voice (N.Y.) 10 Oct., The limit of predictable weather changes varies from two to four days.
Hence predictaˈbility; also attrib.
1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sc. iv. xi. §3 (1875) 402 The higher the constancy, the predictability of the agent, the higher the excellence attained. 1880A. H. Huth Buckle I. iv. 229 Buckle..proves the predictability of human actions by statistics. 1954J. H. Greenberg in H. Hoijer Lang. in Culture 4 Causality should not be confused with predictability. Perhaps only a predictability relation is discerned in some cases. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. June 227/3 The concept of predictability seems in some way related to the concept of pattern. 1972Archivum Linguisticum III. 4 The imperfect subjunctive occurs consistently, with equal predictability, in the language of all characters, in all situations. |