Prospectivity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Prospectivity is a noun meaning The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
Meaning
The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
More Meanings
- The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
- (geometry) A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
Example Sentences
A further ramification of the regional observations concems diamond prospectivity.
Countries with limited prospectivity have limited options, and generally limited negotiation power.
Even though we cannot guarantee 100% prospectivity, as even Lon Fuller would accept, we do make the claim that the Law is in general prospective.
Four properties that stand out as descriptive of behavior at its own level are agency, prospectivity, the search for order in the world, and flexibility.
Word Forms
- prospectivities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prospectiveness, prospect, aspect, prospection, prospective, retrospectivity.
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