Variable used to forecast outcomes.

(computing) A digital circuit that tries to predict which way a branch structure will go, so as to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline.

Estimator with zero expected error.

In computer architecture, a branch target predictor is the part of a processor that predicts the target, i.e., the address of the instruction that is executed next, of a taken conditional branch or unconditional branch instruction before the target of the branch instruction is computed by the execution unit of the processor.

(military, historical) An early automated anti-aircraft fire-control system, capable of aiming a gun at an aircraft based on simple inputs such as observed speed and the angle to the target.

The (invented by O. J. M. Smith in 1957) a type of predictive controller designed to control systems with a significant feedback time delay.

In statistics and in machine learning, a linear predictor function is a linear function (linear combination) of a set of coefficients and explanatory variables (independent variables), whose value is used to predict the outcome of a dependent variable.