0 a person who says they have powers to see the future or see things that other people cannot see -- 先知;能预见未来的人;有洞察力的人;神视者,千里眼
She went to see a clairvoyant who said he could communicate with her dead husband. 她去见了一位高人,那人自称能和她死去的丈夫交谈。
She is clairvoyant and wants to prevent collision.
His superhuman powers make him a clairvoyant, in contact with both subterranean and extraterrestial forces.
An unfortunate aspect of the statements by various clairvoyants was their effect on public opinion.
This problem, called the clairvoyant demon problem, arose originally from a certain leader-election problem in distributed computing.
But every clairvoyant had limits, and for some the travelling stage might be unattainable.
The clairvoyant demon problem also has a natural translation into a percolation problem, this time site percolation rather than edge percolation.
To believe that the clairvoyants really did possess paranormal vision, one would have to suppose that, like normal persons, they could become confused, make mistakes, or experience trompe de l'oeil.
Choi (2000) considered the problem of deciding partially clairvoyant schedulability when all constraints are strictly relative and demonstrated the existence of convergent schedules in the presence of inter-period constraints.