- present participle of estimate.
estimating
Example Sentences
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"We're now estimating the size of the movement of Earth's mass center back and forth each year to be about half of what we believed it to be eight years ago," said Argus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
If no progress is made, prices of food staples will soar, with Denton estimating an up to 80% increase in cereal prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
That finding challenges the usual way scientists interpret thermal stress and provides a new approach for estimating total heat exposure across coastal ecosystems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
However, estimating the current scale of SpaceX’s computing business can be difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
