Definitions for prospection
prospec·tion

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1. prospectionnoun

   The action of looking forward into the future. Formed by analogy with retrospection. Not in common use, but there is some modern use and the OED gives citation back to the 19th and 17th centuries.

2. prospectionnoun

   "Prospection as a feature of Structure" Mona Baker, Gill Francis, Elena Tognini-Bonelli "Text and technology: in honour of John Sinclair" http://books.google.com/books?id=7-Bzc_XjBikC&p71, 1993 John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN 978-90-272-2138-4-

3. prospectionnoun

   The act of prospecting for minerals. Also not in common use.

4. prospectionnoun

   "First part of the prospection fulfilled, prospection still active" Susan Hunston, Gill Francis, "Pattern grammar: a corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English" http://books.google.co/books?id=UUmtzBRd4VcC&, p242, 2000 John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-90-272-2274-9

5. prospectionnoun

   "The problem with this error of retrospection is that it can keep us from discovering our errors of prospection" Daniel Gilbert "Stumbling on Happiness" Knopf New York 2006 ISBN 1-4000-4266-6}}

6. prospectionnoun

   A search for archaeological remains, usually using modern technology, for example ground penetrating radar.

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1. Prospection

   In psychology, prospection is the generation and evaluation of mental representations of possible futures. The term therefore captures a wide array of future-oriented psychological phenomena, including the prediction of future emotion (affective forecasting), the imagination of future scenarios (episodic foresight), and planning. Prospection is central to various aspects of human cognition and motivation. Daniel Gilbert (psychologist) and Timothy Wilson coined the term in 2007. It has since become a central area of enquiry in the cognitive sciences.

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1. Prospectionnoun

   the act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prospection in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prospection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Prospection
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospection
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prospection