overestimations

noun

plural of overestimation
as in underestimations

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  1. surveys
  2. measurements
  3. calculations
Noun
  • The poll surveyed 3,000 adults nationwide through a combination of telephone interviews and online surveys delivered by text message.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Seroprevalence surveys, which screen blood for antibodies that mark a past infection, suggest the true burden is far larger.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of surveys
Noun
  • By combining their temperature measurements with the planet’s mass and models of how giant planets cool over time, the astronomers effectively rewound its thermal history.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • Blocking the details As with other types of data, nuanced measurements are essential for scientific research that clearly describes problems and identifies solutions that are most likely to be effective.
    — Mark Axelrod, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
Definition of measurements
Noun
  • Austria has just launched one of the world’s 100 fastest supercomputers, which is equipped with 1,088 Nvidia chips and can carry out 45,110 trillion calculations per second.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • The rare disruptions that insurance companies struggle to factor into their calculations aren’t so rare anymore, Oliver Bäte observes.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of calculations
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