ESTIMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does estimation mean? 

• ESTIMATION (noun)
  The noun ESTIMATION has 4 senses:

1. a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)

2. the respect with which a person is held

3. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

4. a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody

  Familiarity information: ESTIMATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTIMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

appraisal; estimate; estimation

Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):

commercial document; commercial instrument (a document of or relating to commerce)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):

overappraisal; overestimate; overestimation; overvaluation (an appraisal that is too high)

Derivation:

estimate (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The respect with which a person is held

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

estimate; estimation

Context example:

they had a high estimation of his ability

Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):

esteem; regard; respect (an attitude of admiration or esteem)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):

report; reputation (the general estimation that the public has for a person)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

approximation; estimate; estimation; idea

Context example:

a rough idea how long it would take

Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):

calculation; computation; figuring; reckoning (problem solving that involves numbers or quantities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):

scalage (estimation of the amount of lumber in a log)

credit; credit rating (an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments)

dead reckoning; guess; guessing; guesswork; shot (an estimate based on little or no information)

guesstimate; guestimate (an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing)

overestimate; overestimation; overrating; overreckoning (a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high)

underestimate; underestimation; underrating; underreckoning (an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value)

Derivation:

estimate (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A judgment of the qualities of something or somebody

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

estimate; estimation

Context example:

in my estimation the boy is innocent

Hypernyms ("estimation" is a kind of...):

assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "estimation"):

appraisal (an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something)

capitalisation; capitalization (an estimation of the value of a business)

Derivation:

estimate (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

 Context examples 

But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You are not sensible of the gain, for your regard for him has blinded you; but, in my estimation, your marrying early may be the saving of you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That was fair of François, he decided, and the half-breed began his rise in Buck’s estimation.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was about this time that Martin took a great slump in Maria's estimation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

An estimation of the glomerular filtration rate adjusted for body size based on cystatin C.

(Glomerular Filtration Rate from Cystatin C Adjusted for BSA, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An estimation of the glomerular filtration rate adjusted for body size based on creatinine.

(Glomerular Filtration Rate from Creatinine Adjusted for BSA, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards, to express his concurrence in this estimation of me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The general listened with assenting gratitude; and it seemed as if his own estimation of Northanger had waited unfixed till that hour.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The goodness of fit statistic for the terminal elimination phase, adjusted for the number of time points used in the estimation of Lambda z.

(Adjusted R Squared, NCI Thesaurus)

Amy rose daily in the estimation of her friend, but he sank in hers, and each felt the truth before a word was spoken.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)