What is "actuarial"

Usage examples of "actuarial".

If Levan ever saw an actuarial table then it was only because he collected trash from an insurance company.

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He invented the weather map and actuarial table, proposed methods for working out the age of the Earth and its distance from the Sun, even devised a practical method for keeping fish fresh out of season.

Rowser had a gift for numbers and a temperament that enabled him to separate mathematical techniques and actuarial science from the terrifying events he culled for his figures.

There was no fumbling with condoms, his or hers, no guilt, no actuarial accountings, no position three, four, or five bolstered up by beams and rope, just two human bodies humming up and down the musical scale of skin, bone, creases, shadows, cleanly, singingly, besottedly droll.

I still thought maybe what happened over at Prudential and Gibraltar was some kind of fluke, even though I knew all the companies worked out of the Federal Actuarial Table Extrapolator.

They mumble I know how tough it is for you or I understand but when it comes right down to it, it is their production schedule or swing shift time or actuarial table that mesmerizes them.

My Notebooks told me about actuarial tables, devices for predicting death rates, that even predated human spaceflight.

Everything was controlled by monopolies, and cable construction was based on sober, scientific forecasts, analogous, in some ways, to the actuarial tables on which insurance companies predicate their policies.

I shall live out my life and, if actuarial tables are to be believed, I should shuffle off this mortal coil some time in the 1920s or 1930s.