estimate
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈɛstɪmeɪt/
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estimación
- Can you provide a rough estimate of how many people will attend the meeting?
- provide estimates
- a conservative estimate
- an accurate estimate
OK, this is our Fermi estimate, but now for a sanity check.
- OK, this is our Fermi estimate, but now for a sanity check.
- And this is where it's worth looking at Bloomberg's estimate for Tesla's margin compression.
- When Dell made its earnings announcement, it missed the estimates and it's stock fell.
- I was pretty close on my estimate, and I don't make that anymore.
- But I just wanted to make this video to give you an estimate of what I think is good.
- And even with the most generous of estimates, it doesn't, it doesn't come anywhere close.
- And that's, that's kind of what we want in order to get a realistic estimate anyway.
- If you're really anxious during the test, the score will be a bad estimate of your G factor.
- And the closer those two points are together, the more accurate our estimate is for the slope at that point.
Examples
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Now you can make an estimate of its distance.
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The total cost of Richard and Lydia's wedding exceeded early estimates.
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So the agent is going to maintain an estimate of its value function.
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And you get another maybe slightly better estimate of the noise in the image.
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But I just wanted to make this video to give you an estimate of what I think is good.
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So as you can see, the estimates are really pretty good.
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Defense spending is far higher than most estimates of what we need.
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According to our estimates, every crop will be infected within a month.
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According to our best estimates, speed, course and trajectory... that object was headed for someplace in Arizona.
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By my estimate, you'll have about 24 hours to evacuate.
Synonyms
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5.1
An estimate of how much something is worth
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4.3
A rough estimate of a cost or amount
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4.4
A close but not exact number or description
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3.4
A rough calculation of how much or how many something is
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7.1
A way of calculating numbers to find an amount
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8.2
A rough calculation used when exact numbers are not available
A careful guess about size, amount, or cost of something
A simpler value or function used to estimate a more complex one
Compounds
- Specialized
A price plan for a job based on the actual time spent and materials used
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Estimate comes from the Latin word aestimare, which means 'to value' or 'judge how much something is worth'. So an estimate is a quick judgment or calculation of a thing's value, size, or number.