Overestimation is an English word with synonyms like overestimate or estimate. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Overestimation in a sentence
Overestimation meaning
- The act of overestimating.
- An overestimate.
Synonyms of Overestimation
Overestimation vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Overestimation
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of overestimating. | An overestimate.
- Useful related words include: overestimate, estimate, estimation, approximation.
- Possible Dutch translations are: overschatting.
- In the example corpus, overestimation often appears in combinations such as: overestimation of, an overestimation.
Context around Overestimation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overestimation
- In this selection, "overestimation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, obvious stand out and add context to how "overestimation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an obvious overestimation of the and approved an overestimation of his. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overestimation" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overestimation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to Yom, there is an overestimation of American intelligence capabilities. (11 words)
The overestimation of driving trips also pushes developments to have more parking spaces than they truly need. (17 words)
Another explanation is that there could be an overestimation of the proposed capital budget in the expansion plans. (18 words)
Simply because it’s a rather bad plan in its technological aspects and, most importantly, there is an obvious overestimation of the potential it could add to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. (31 words)
So, if the insects perceived the illusion, they would choose the option with the yellow dots clustered in the centre, revealing an overestimation of the quantity of yellow dots. (29 words)
The Union wanted to “avoid pointing the finger too clearly at China”, which Kleinhans suspects could be due to an “overestimation of the economic dependence on China”. (27 words)
Example sentences (8)
According to Yom, there is an overestimation of American intelligence capabilities.
Simply because it’s a rather bad plan in its technological aspects and, most importantly, there is an obvious overestimation of the potential it could add to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Another explanation is that there could be an overestimation of the proposed capital budget in the expansion plans.
So, if the insects perceived the illusion, they would choose the option with the yellow dots clustered in the centre, revealing an overestimation of the quantity of yellow dots.
The overestimation of driving trips also pushes developments to have more parking spaces than they truly need.
The Union wanted to “avoid pointing the finger too clearly at China”, which Kleinhans suspects could be due to an “overestimation of the economic dependence on China”.
Overestimation in income tax revenues, for example, results in the setting of unrealistic targets which is divided amongst the collectorate.
Knox, Enthusiasm, p. 13) There is no indication that Apollos favored or approved an overestimation of his person.
Common combinations with overestimation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overestimation of 9×
- an overestimation 5×