Prospective refers to an event that is likely or expected to happen in the future. For example, a ''prospective student'' is someone who is considering attending a school. A
prospective cohort study is a type of study, e.g., in sociology or medicine, that follows participants for a particular future time period.
It may also refer to the following:
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Prospective aspect, a grammatical aspect
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Prospective Dolly
Prospective Dolly (foaled 1987 in Florida) is a Thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse who is best known as a three-time winner of two Graded stakes race, stakes races. Out of the mare Dolly Deb, she was sired by Prosperous, a stakes winner in Japan ...
(born 1987), Thoroughbred racehorse
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Prospective memory, remembering to perform an intended action
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Prospective parliamentary candidate, a term used in British politics
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Prospective Piloted Transport System, a project to develop a new-generation crewed spacecraft
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Prospective search
Prospective search, or persistent search, is a method of searching which determines which of a set of queries matches content in a corpus. Other names include document routing and percolate queries. It is sometimes called reverse search, but that c ...
, a method of searching on the Internet
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Prospective short-circuit current, the highest electric current which can exist in a particular electrical system under short circuit conditions
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Prospective payment system, a payment model used in health care to control costs
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Retrospective
A retrospective (from Latin ''retrospectare'', "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past. As a noun, ''retrospective'' has specific meanings in medicine, software development, popu ...
generally means to study events that already have taken place.
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