Temporal projection

A temporal projection was a type of forecast of the future preformed by the Time Lords to see potential time streams. According to one account of the Genesis Incident, the Time Lord messenger specified to the Fourth Doctor that Gallifrey's "latest temporal projections" warned them of a time-stream in which the Daleks had wiped out all other life in N-Space. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks)

During the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords used the Matrix to extrapolate encounters between the Doctor and the Daleks in the post-Time War universe, then thought to be only theoretical. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)