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Meanings of overestimation in English

An appraisal that is too high.

A calculation that results in an estimate that is too high.

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Examples for "overestimate"
Examples for "overestimate"
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It's hard to overestimate the level of violence and instability in Honduras.
The Irish Times
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So did the media overestimate the level of interest in Titanic 100?
The Irish Times
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It is very easy to underestimate or, indeed, overestimate what is required.
The Irish Times
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Organizations tend to overestimate how quickly they'll migrate to newer operating systems.
Wired
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Omitting AD class and dosing information may overestimate pharmacotherapy for geriatric depression.
Pubmed
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Vancouver shows evidence of overvaluation and accelerating prices, the agency said.
Reuters
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A modest risk of overvaluation is also present in Toronto, Calgary and Halifax.
Reuters
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But I believe a premium does not equal an overvaluation.
Reuters
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Every one of us is subject to alternations of overvaluation and undervaluation of ourselves.
Over the Teacups
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In some metropolitan areas, the overvaluation was much worse.
The Return of Depression Economics
Usage of overestimation in English
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This overestimation is probably a result of decreased aortic impedance in AR.
Pubmed
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This is, however, only a part of the reason for its overestimation.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 / Containing Sixteen Exp...
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Ignoring maternal effects in the model caused overestimation of direct heritability.
Pubmed
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Exactly, but the error typically is an underestimation error, not an overestimation error.
The new yorker
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The clinical value might be limited by overestimation and intra- and inter-individual variation.
Pubmed
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Specifically, emotional stimuli lead to temporal overestimation, yet identical stimuli result in numerical underestimation.
Pubmed
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This equates to an overestimation of fraudulent claims by a reality-defying factor of 34.
The Irish Times
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Consciousness, however, was a slight overestimation of his condition.
First Strike
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This anxiety manifests as an overestimation of immigration numbers.
Radio NZ
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The overestimation of these filled spaces is evidently due in a large measure to æsthetic motives.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 / Containing Sixteen Exp...
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The overestimation of the chronological age was confirmed.
Pubmed
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The facility with which the product will be used, to his mind, is almost beyond overestimation.
Industrial Progress and Human Economics
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The natural consequence was a general overestimation of cognition at the expense of all other mental activities.
History of Modern Philosophy / From Nicolas of Cusa to the Prese...
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Each side overestimated the other's initial strength, but the overestimation had dire consequences for one side only.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
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This overestimation, coupled with an apparent interindividual variation, might affect the interpretation of results in some situations.
Pubmed
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The reasons for the current overestimation of
Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
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Overestimation through the time