网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 uncertainty
释义
uncertainty
noun[CorU]
uk
/ʌnˈsɜː.tən.ti/us
/ʌnˈsɝː.tən.ti/
C1
asituationin which something is notknown, or something that is notknownorcertain:
不确定性；不确定因素；不确定（或未知）的事物
Nothing iseverdecided, and all the uncertainty is verybadforstaffmorale.什么都还没有决定，而这一切不确定因素都对员工士气非常不利。
Life isfullof uncertainties.人生充满了未知数。
More examples
  • Is there any uncertainty at all about the way shedied?
  • The commission'sreporthasdispelledmuch of the uncertainty that hasenshroudedtheindustry.
  • There's adegreeof uncertainty over the company'sfuture.
  • There's some uncertaintysurroundingthefundingfor theproject.
  • There's anelementof uncertainty inourplans.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Uncertainty
  • amorphous
  • arguable
  • be neither fish nor fowlidiom
  • blurred
  • blurry
  • circumstantial
  • conflicted
  • dodgy
  • indeterminate
  • insecurely
  • insecurity
  • it remains to be seenidiom
  • it's early daysidiom
  • slippery
  • spec
  • sputter
  • squishy
  • stutter
  • swither
  • unwritten
See more results »

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Doubt & ambivalence
(Definition ofuncertaintyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

uncertainty| Business English

uncertainty
noun
uk
/ʌnˈsɜːtənti/us
[CorU]
thefeelingof not beingsurewhat willhappenin thefuture:
Therulechangesarecomplicatedandcauseuncertainty forworkersandheadachesforemployers.
At atimeofeconomicuncertainty,risktaking canseemparticularlydifficult.
There are uncertainties thatloomovercommoditiesprices.
uncertainty about/overWhen there is uncertainty aboutfinancing, thenprivateequityis not soquickto makedeals.
(Definition ofuncertaintyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuncertainty

uncertainty
Altruistic players in this region do not have dominant strategies; this introducesuncertaintyover the other's strategy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As such, ethnicity as ideology provides a psychological formula which mitigates the uncertainties of state- society relations.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Longterm exclosure plots currently capturing and protecting seeds falling into the crab-zone will help address thisuncertainty.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Within the uncertain category, projects could then be ranked by level ofuncertainty.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The subject of sea level rise is surrounded by uncertainties.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Wide ranges (+30 percent of the point estimates) were used to account for theuncertaintysurrounding these cost estimates.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Truncated literature search strategies may often lead touncertaintysurrounding the conclusions of a review.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This approach gives a reflection of theuncertaintysurrounding the imputed value.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As the time horizon is extended, 0 increases and becomes positive after 54 weeks, and theuncertaintysurrounding 0 increases.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Information is valuable because it reduces the expected costs ofuncertaintysurrounding clinical decisions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The use of these measures provided a further illustration of theuncertaintythat surrounds the results of cost-effectiveness analyses.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, our confidence intervals represent theuncertaintysurrounding the estimates obtained from the particular area of activity we chose to observe.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Therefore, these methods implicitly assume that there is nouncertaintysurrounding the decision that the proposed research is supposed to inform.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Language switching in bilinguals as a function of stimulus and responseuncertainty.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Simple perceptual tasks might be better for revealinguncertaintymonitoring in very young children.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocationswithuncertainty

uncertainty

These are words often used in combination withuncertainty.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

cloud of uncertainty
One of the reasons why this man is so ill, both physically and mentally—indeed, the main reason—isthe cloud of uncertainty which overhangs him.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
condition of uncertainty
Rules must account for each and everyconditionofuncertainty.
From theCambridge English Corpus
considerable uncertainty
Yet there isconsiderableuncertaintyabout the future of informal care.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/uncertainty##
随便看

　

英汉词典包含213609条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。

　

Copyright © 1999-2024 qbania.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2024/12/27 23:19:46