verb
- to predict or infer something about the past based on present evidence or knowledge
Usage: technical; philosophy of science
Examples
- Scientists can retrodict the position of planets centuries ago using current astronomical data.
- The geologist was able to retrodict the ancient climate from rock formations.
- Using DNA evidence, researchers retrodict evolutionary relationships between species.
- The theory allows us to retrodict what conditions were like during the early universe.
- Historians retrodict social conditions from archaeological findings.
- The model can retrodict past weather patterns with remarkable accuracy.