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US
/ˌoʊvɝˈɛstəˌmeɪt/
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[ UK /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmət/ ]
[ UK /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmət/ ]
VERB
-
assign too high a value to
You are overestimating the value of your old car -
make too high an estimate of
He overestimated his own powers
NOUN
- an appraisal that is too high
- a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high
How To Use overestimate In A Sentence
- If the inducing angle is overestimated, the test line should be seen as parallel when it is actually rotated away from the nearby arm of the angle
- Imagine you completely mess up her measurements and overestimate her bust or waist?
- Over at Overcoming Bias, the smartest man I know argues that we underestimate the quality of women's lives - and overestimate the quality of men's lives - because the genders have different propensities to complain. The Social Psychology of Gender Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Because many of the above estimates of divergence times far exceed the times of first appearance of land plants in the fossil record, they might be overestimates.
- It is possible that the genome length estimates of these maps were overestimated.
- But perhaps he overestimates the sturdiness of the SAT-based meritocracy that he wishes to see deposed.
- But he overestimates the extent to which the supremacy of nurture is generally accepted.
- By contrast, a random-sample study will never return an overestimate because it can never sample the rare event more than once.
- It wouldn't be the first time we've overestimated the power of the American idea - and encountered some rough beast that is untameable.
- Such effects would include: overestimates or underestimates of results during the observation and recording phase of an experiment, errors in interpreting the data, and the fabrication of data.
