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 A prospective cohort study is a longitudinal cohort study that follows over time a group of similar individuals ( cohorts) who differ with respect to certain factors under study to determine how these factors affect rates of a certain outcome. ...

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: *

Prospective aspect In linguistics, the prospective aspect ( abbreviated or ) is a grammatical aspect describing an event that occurs subsequent to a given reference time.Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University P ...

, a grammatical aspect *

Prospective Dolly {{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Prospective Dolly , image = , caption = , sire = Prosperous , grandsire = Mr. Prospector , dam = Dolly Deb , damsire = Villamor , sex = Filly , foaled = 1987 , country = United States , colour = Che ...

(born 1987), Thoroughbred racehorse *

Prospective memory Prospective memory is a form of memory that involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time.McDaniel, M. A., & Einstein, G. O. (2007). ''Prospective memory: An overview and synthesis of a ...

, remembering to perform an intended action *

Prospective parliamentary candidate In British politics, a prospective parliamentary candidate (PPC) is a candidate selected by political parties to contest under individual Westminster constituencies in advance of a general election. The term originally came into use because of ...

, a term used in British politics *

Prospective Piloted Transport System Orel () or Oryol, formerly Federation (), and PPTS (), is a project by Roscosmos to develop a new-generation, partially reusable crewed spacecraft. Until 2016, the official name was () or PTK NP. The goal of the project is to develop a next-ge ...

, a project to develop a new-generation crewed spacecraft *

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 ...

, a method of searching on the Internet *

Prospective short-circuit current The prospective short-circuit current (PSCC), available fault current, or short-circuit making current is the highest electric current which can exist in a particular electrical system under short-circuit conditions. It is determined by the voltag ...

, the highest electric current which can exist in a particular electrical system under short circuit conditions *

Prospective payment system A prospective payment system (PPS) is a term used to refer to several payment methodologies for which means of determining insurance reimbursement is based on a predetermined payment regardless of the intensity of the actual service provided. It in ...

, a payment model used in health care to control costs

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