reasonable estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreasonableandestimate
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reasonable
adjective
uk/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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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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(Definition ofreasonableandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The same ion temperature was assumed as areasonableestimatefor the case of deuterium plasma.
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This is because the latter figure is a (currently)reasonableestimateof the upper bound on the information storage capacity of the human brain.
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However, one can make areasonableestimateas follows.
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Nevertheless, the normal distribution provides areasonableestimateof the confidence interval.
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Visual inspection can give areasonableestimateof the extent of internal cracks in maize kernels caused by stress in the field.
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Nevertheless, such experiments provide areasonableestimateregarding the response of viscoelastic materials at the time of the load application.
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In the absence of other information, areasonableestimateof for the experimental treatment is 50% (=50/100).
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Figure 7 shows that this scaling gives areasonableestimateof the strength of the space-charge field in the three cases studied.
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Our method mostly did not allow precise localization of bats in flight, but it permitted areasonableestimateof the size of the foraging and roosting areas.
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Thus, if we assume that the 115 neurons are an unbiased sample, 32% (60% of 54%) would be areasonableestimateof pre-motor neurons (we use pre-saccadic and pre-motor interchangeably).
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The rates for 1968 and 1969 are not yet available, but areasonableestimatewould be that the rate increased by approximately 100% between 1959 and 1969.
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There are 28.9 per cent of the respondents over this line, areasonableestimateof the non-ideological group, given the actual distribution of scores on the issue index.
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In this case, the problem becomes one of the computation time required to perform sufficient replicates of simulation or permutation to provide areasonableestimateof threshold.
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Zoster consultation rates are thus likely to be areasonableestimateof incidence rates.
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Noreasonableestimatecan readily be made of the savings to private sector tenants, but they will undoubtedly be substantial.
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I regret that the information on which areasonableestimatecould be based is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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Is that not areasonableestimate, coming from a man on the ground doing this work?
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I think that that is areasonableestimate.
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