They do most of the prep in the vans and use a lot of predictive math in their routing.
Makers|Cory Doctorow
The essential difference was that science was predictive and magic was effective—though the end results were often the same.
The Sky Is Falling|Lester del Rey
First, because of the rediscovery of the idea of mechanism, without which predictive science had been virtually impossible.
International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I|Various
Besides her faith in her predictive dreams was by no means fixed.
Money Magic|Hamlin Garland
Hence the attempt to admit their predictive truth, and yet deny their divine authority, by ascribing them to human sagacity.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith|Robert Patterson
British Dictionary definitions for predictive
predictive
/ (prɪˈdɪktɪv) /
adjective
of, relating to, or making predictions
text messaging(of mobile phone technology) enabling mobile phones to predict the word being entered in a text message from the first few letterspredictive texting