estimation
The process of making an estimate.
Example
“According to my estimations, we should get to the border in five hours, give or take.”
Other meanings
The amount, extent, position, size, or value reached in an estimate.
Esteem or favourable regard.
“With that performance last night, you've gone up in the director's estimation.”
Related words
- coestimation
- costimation
- disestimation
- guesstimation
- misestimation
- overestimation
- postestimation
- reestimation
- subestimation
- underestimation
- estimate
- ballpark estimation
Word history
From Latin "aestimatio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “estimation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.