accurate estimate

collocation in English

meaningsofaccurateandestimate

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accurate
adjective
uk
/ˈæk.jə.rət/
us
/ˈæk.jɚ.ət/
correct, exact, and without ...
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estimate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈes.tɪ.mət/
us
/ˈes.tə.mət/
a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something ...
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It is able to provide a moreaccurateestimateabout the occurrence of collisions and reduces the number of false alarms.
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Such data would have served to better establish the assumption of binding equilibrium and to provide a moreaccurateestimateof binding potential.
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This procedure can be extended t o the average of the averages and so on and anaccurateestimateof the sum thus obtained.
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In most cases, however, we did not care to obtain anaccurateestimateof the degree of bleaching.
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It is the combination of views which then permits anaccurateestimateof the degree of overriding.
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This makes it possible to support anaccurateestimateof recombination rate by analysis of thousands of individuals.
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If there is positive dependence over time, then the number of observations required to reach anaccurateestimateis longer than what is presented above.
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Thus, it is not possible to obtain anaccurateestimatefor the silent site nucleotide substitution rate, as well.
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This is likely to be a moreaccurateestimateof the zircon age than the upper intercept of the regression line.
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Clearly, based on 20 realizations this procedure will not result in a veryaccurateestimateof the precise 90 % confidence bounds.
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The inclusion of the ' other carbon monoxide poisoning ' code gives the mostaccurateestimateof car exhaust deaths.
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A moreaccurateestimateof sucrose content is obtained through destructive sampling and polarimetry.
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It is important to arrive at anaccurateestimatefor the proper assessment of the demographic and other effects of the change in the law.
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We depart from this suggestion in order to obtain a moreaccurateestimateof the initial capital stock.
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Only when these pragmatic conditions have been satisfied in an experiment can anaccurateestimateof children's grammatical knowledge be made.
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