estimating
Произношение: [ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪŋ]
Слово
Контекст: «measurement»
(verb) to make a guess about a number or value based on information. It’s like when you try to figure out how many candies are in a jar without counting them all.
Пример
She is estimating the number of pages in the book.
Пример
He is not estimating correctly; he thinks there are only five pages when there are actually twenty.
Пример
How are you estimating the height of that tree?
Контекст: «time and cost»
(verb) to make an educated guess about how long something will take or how much it will cost. This is like when a teacher guesses how long it will take to finish a test.
Пример
The contractor is estimating the cost of the new playground.
Пример
The engineer did not estimate the time properly, and the project took much longer than planned.
Пример
What are you estimating the total expenses to be for the trip?
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