reliable indicator
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandindicator
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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indicator
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.dɪ.keɪ.tər/us/ˈɪn.də.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
something that shows what a situation ...
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(Definition ofreliableandindicatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreliable indicator
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To use areliableindicatorin preference to a worse one appears a matter of course.
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Shedding water content, at least for the amaryllids investigated here, may not be areliableindicatorof the degree of desiccation sensitivity.
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The prices of resources, however, do not always provide areliableindicatorof scarcity, unless externalities and property rights have been properly assigned.
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For this reason we do not regard the publication prior as areliableindicatorof current best expert opinion.
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In other words, the selection units have learned that areliableindicatorfor a given disparity was a change in disparity across space.
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A morereliableindicatoris needed to characterize the length of the effective flowering period of cotton varieties.
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However, fold vergence is not areliableindicatorof tectonic transport direction under high-temperature ductile conditions (under which transport lineations parallel fold axial planes).
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A correlated biochemical, physiological or morphological marker is urgently needed as areliableindicatorof the end of tuber dormancy.
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Female time preference was not a useful predictor of ultimate mate choice, whereas first mount preference of the female was areliableindicator.
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Furthermore, the results of this study show that first mount preference was areliableindicatorof subsequent mate preference.
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These rallies were not necessarily areliableindicatorof voting on the day of the poll.
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If children's speech output were areliableindicatorof the state of their grammar, we would expect that they would be able to parse their own speech.
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Self-assessment of one's state of health is a subjective butreliableindicatorof both physical and mental health and has become a standard indicator in social research.
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Although live termites were often encountered during our coring of trees, this per se was not considered areliableindicatorof termite activity that could potentially affect tree growth.
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Content-based techniques are typically employed when a sufficient amount of data describing the user's past behaviour is available and it appears to be areliableindicatorof his future behaviour.
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Nevertheless, common parts are often structurally quite dissimilar, for example, the ears of an elephant, rabbit, or dog, and so, may not provide areliableindicatorof structural similarity.
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Infection rates are sensitive to small sample size, even when transformed to angles, and the number of infected snails collected can be a morereliableindicatorof transmission intensity.
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