forecasting

From forecast + -ing.

forecasting

1. present participle and gerund of forecast

From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast +‎ -ing.

forecasting (plural forecastings)

1. A forecast or prediction.
   • 1852, The Dublin University Magazine, page 66:

     There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin […]