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  • Check the reasonableness of your math solution by estimating the answer before solving the problem.
    estimating = making a rough calculation
  • I asked her to give me a firm price, but she would only give me an estimate.
    estimate = rough calculation or guess
  • I hope her estimate of less than $100 to repair my car is good because I only have $100.
    estimate = rough calculation or informed guess
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  • Time estimate?  (source)
    estimate = rough calculation or guess
  • The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, he could return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty.  (source)
    estimated = roughly calculated or guessed
  • Whenever he performed a minor service for Jem and me, as removing a splinter from a foot, he would tell us exactly what he was going to do, give us an estimation of how much it would hurt, and explain the use of any tongs he employed.  (source)
    estimation = an educated guess (rough calculation)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • There were now 12,000 army troops in the region—four times as many as their estimates of the Taliban—along with tanks, helicopters and sophisticated weapons.†  (source)
    estimates = rough calculations or guesses of values, quantities, or extents
  • I'd foolishly underestimated Sorrento and the Sixers.†  (source)
    underestimated = calculated or judged too low
  • I used to enjoy estimating quantities, but not anymore.†  (source)
    estimating = roughly calculating or guessing (based on incomplete information) a value, quantity, or extent of something
  • I overestimated my progress.†  (source)
    overestimated = made a rough calculation or judgment that something would be greater or more extreme than it was
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overestimated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • Leffingwell Elementary was just a few blocks from our house and my father, grossly underestimating our ability to get lost, had assumed that my mother and I would be able to find our way home.†  (source)
    underestimating = calculating or judging too low
  • I figured they wanted to enslave us for our abilities, or at the very least sell us at auction—but then I'm always overestimating people.†  (source)
    overestimating = calculating or judging too high
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overestimating means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.†  (source)
    underestimates = calculates or judges too low
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