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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Estimation \Es`ti*ma"tion\, n. [L. aestimatio, fr. aestimare: cf. F. estimation. See Esteem, v. t.]
The act of estimating.
--Shak.-
An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities.
If he be poorer that thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest, and the priest shall value him.
--Lev. xxvii. 8. -
Favorable opinion; esteem; regard; honor.
I shall have estimation among multitude, and honor with the elders.
--Wisdom viii. 10. -
Supposition; conjecture.
I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know.
--Shak.Syn: Estimate; calculation; computation; appraisement; esteem; honor; regard. See Estimate, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "action of appraising; manner of judging; opinion," from Old French estimacion "evaluation, value; calculation, planning," from Latin aestimationem (nominative aestimatio) "a valuation," from past participle stem of aestimare "to value" (see esteem (v.)). Meaning "appreciation" is from 1520s. That of "process of forming an approximate notion" is from c.1400.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of making an estimate. 2 The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate. 3 esteem or favourable regard.
WordNet
n. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, approximation, idea]
a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) [syn: appraisal, estimate]
the respect with which a person is held; "they had a high estimation of his ability" [syn: estimate]
a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; "many factors are involved in any estimate of human life"; "in my estimation the boy is innocent" [syn: estimate]
Wikipedia
In project management (i.e., for engineering), accurate estimates are the basis of sound project planning. Many processes have been developed to aid engineers in making accurate estimates, such as
- Analogy based estimation
- Compartmentalization (i.e., breakdown of tasks)
- Cost estimate
- Delphi method
- Documenting estimation results
- Educated assumptions
- Estimating each task
- Examining historical data
- Identifying dependencies
- Parametric estimating
- Risk assessment
- Structured planning
Popular estimation processes for software projects include:
- Cocomo
- Cosysmo
- Event chain methodology
- Function points
- Planning poker
- Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
- Proxy-based estimating (PROBE) (from the Personal Software Process)
- The Planning Game (from Extreme Programming)
- Weighted Micro Function Points (WMFP)
- Wideband Delphi
Estimation is the process of finding a usable approximation of a result.
Estimation may also refer to:
- Estimation theory, a field in statistics, also used in signal processing
- Estimation statistics, a data analysis approach in frequentist statistics
- Estimation (project management)
- Approximation, finding estimates in the form of upper or lower bounds for a quantity that cannot readily be evaluated precisely
- Forecasting
- Prediction
Estimation (or estimating) is the process of finding an estimate, or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. The value is nonetheless usable because it is derived from the best information available. Typically, estimation involves "using the value of a statistic derived from a sample to estimate the value of a corresponding population parameter". The sample provides information that can be projected, through various formal or informal processes, to determine a range most likely to describe the missing information. An estimate that turns out to be incorrect will be an overestimate if the estimate exceeded the actual result, and an underestimate if the estimate fell short of the actual result.
Usage examples of "estimation".
The body, however, was but a pompous trifle, and I had for many a day held his observes and admonishments in no very reverential estimation.
Cassius, because in the agrarian donation he sought popularity among the allies, and was therefore lowered in the estimation of his countrymen, in order that by another donation he might conciliate their affections, ordered that the money received for the Sicilian corn should be refunded to the people.
The Alcalde, a man of immense importance in his own estimation, hesitated before accepting it.
This observation, together with the warm look that accompanied it, left no doubt where Alec stood in her estimation.
I cannot recollect now, and could not render into English were I to recall them, should, upon complaint of the person aggrieved, and upon proof of the offence by the evidence of worthy and truth-speaking witnesses, be amerced in such penalty, not exceeding a certain sum, as in the estimation of the presiding magistrate should be held to be a proper compensation for the injury to his reputation suffered by the plaintiff.
Citron and Ivory, were richly adorned and spread with cloath of gold, the Cups were garnished pretiously, and there were divers other things of sundry fashion, but of like estimation and price : here stood a glasse gorgeously wrought, there stood another of Christall finely painted.
My letter was, in my own estimation, a perfect masterpiece, and just the kind of epistle by which I was certain to conquer her very adoration, and to sink for ever the sun of Cordiani, whom I could not accept as the sort of being likely to make her hesitate for one instant in her choice between him and me.
She had been anxious to have friends, but she had dismissed all lovers, refusing to avail herself of a privilege which she could easily have enjoyed, but which would have rendered her contemptible in her own estimation.
Holding in her imperial hands the register of cardinal sins, she fancied that she could be indulgent for six of them, and keep all her severity for the seventh, lewdness, which in her estimation could not be forgiven.
If his eminence did not know how to write poetry, at least he knew how to be generous, and in a delicate manner, and that science is, at least in my estimation, superior to the other for a great nobleman.
For Wynne-Edwards, epideictic behaviour is deliberate massing in crowds to facilitate population estimation.
Rags and the Chemical Control of Rag Boiling -- Esparto Boiling -- Wood Boiling -- Testing Spent Liquors and Recovered Ash -- Experimental Tests with Raw Fibrous Materials -- Boiling in Autoclaves -- Bleaching and making up Hand Sheets -- Examination of Sulphite Liquors -- Estimation of Moisture in Pulp and Half-stuff -- Recommendations of the British Wood Pulp Association.
It is commonly stated that during fermentation there is generated theobromine, the alkaloid which gives cacao its stimulating properties, but the estimation of theobromine in fermented and unfermented beans does not support this.
Boba Fett raised his inner estimation of the Trandoshan bounty hunter.
I create an intolerable sort of lies, or else my profession loses his grace, and yet the lie to a man of my coat is as ominous as the Fico, oh, sir, it holds for good policy to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, that inwardly is most dear to us: So much for my borrowed shape.