(n.) An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote.
Example Sentences:
(1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(2) The use of a water manometer would have caused overestimation of the intravascular volume status of this patient during the nodal rhythm.
(3) there is a systematic tendency for high values to be underestimated and for low ones to be overestimated.
(4) (B) Systematic overestimation of EDV by Greene's method was corrected according to the regression equation proposed by Bentivoglio [9]; h was the same as in A.
(5) The proportion of companies complying with such a law may be overestimated if information on compliance is obtained only from employers.
(6) In short, while there was strong agreement between men and women, there were also replicated significant systematic differences with men overestimating the psychological impact of less intense incidents and underestimating the psychological impact on women of more intense incidents.
(7) The results can be summarized as follows: (a) the daily estimated durations of sleep and wakefulness were positively correlated with the actual durations in all but one subject; (b) sleep and wake times were better estimated in the presence of a light-dark cycle even if the subjects were not entrained by the zeitgeber; (c) for both episodes, there was a consistent trend from an overestimation of relatively short to an underestimation of long durations; (d) with equal durations in the two episodes, sleep was estimated to be shorter than wake time; (e) the most accurate estimates centered around 10.5 h of sleep and 13.5 h of wake time; (f) the sleep and wake times added up to 24 h in subjects who did not deliberately "compensate" for relatively long sleep estimates with a short wake estimate, with the full cycle being adjusted to 24 h.
(8) If subsequent studies confirm that AD patients' cognitive characteristics are similar to Piaget's theoretical model, nursing care might be individualized based on mental competence, thus minimizing the commonly observed caregiver overestimation and underestimation of the AD patient's ability to understand and cooperate.
(9) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(10) We found that methods of classifying responses as oscillating used in some of the studies of the cat may have led to overestimation of both the number of sites showing oscillation and the number of pairs of sites showing phase coherence.
(11) In 71 (75%) of the 95 sera, the M-protein was underestimated and the albumin concentration overestimated.
(12) The use of the other three diluents resulted in an overestimation of C3a levels.
(13) Participants were classified into three groups, based on the pattern of their BAC estimation errors-Underestimators, Overestimators, or Mixed Pattern estimators.
(14) Visual evoked potentials, like forced preferential looking, may grossly overestimate the acuity of the amblyopic patient.
(15) Because the organization of testicular tissues in the beagle is quite different from rodents but more similar to human, the results from this study suggest that extrapolations from rodents to humans may tend to overestimate the potential for radiation exposure to spermatogonial stem cells as well as the fraction of the spermatogonial stem cell population at risk to exposure from internally deposited 239Pu.
(16) At the same time, though, al-Jazeera's role in promoting free flow of information and opening up political debate in the Middle East is hard to overestimate – its actions probably contributed towards the emergence of the "Arab spring".
(17) With OWC as reference, UKMvb and UKMvd overestimated G by 19 and 15%, respectively.
(18) It was concluded that the aetiological role of hepatitis C virus on liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in the endemic area of hepatitis B virus is not so important as in Western countries, and transfusion might result in an overestimated pathogenic effect of hepatitis C virus in cirrhotic patients and patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(19) Measurements of VE in patients being considered for a weaning trial can result in significant oxygen desaturation if obtained during room air breathing, and the values obtained can significantly overestimate the patient's true ventilatory requirements, since most patients receive supplemental oxygen during a weaning trial.
(20) Overestimation was higher (up to 8 points) when the losses were high, as for oats, or when degradability was low, as for fish meal.
Overvalue
Definition:
(v. t.) To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.
(v. t.) To exceed in value.
Example Sentences:
(1) The carbon bubble refers to the overvaluation of fossil fuel reserves and related assets should the world meet its stated objective of limiting climate change.
(2) "The current massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc poses an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carries the risk of a deflationary development," said Switzerland's central bank.
(3) Ocado's float plan has been criticised from the outset, with analysts and institutional investors insisting the business was overvalued.
(4) In a hard-hitting report on the countries facing macroeconomic imbalances, such as overvalued housing markets or hefty government debts, the European commission identified a total of 13 member states – including France, the Netherlands and Belgium – which it said should take urgent action to restore the health of their economies.
(5) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
(6) A phenomenological explanation, the belief of pregnancy as an overvalued idea, is discussed.
(7) That is leading to a so-called carbon bubble, an overvaluation of oil companies' financial value, they have said .
(8) The result is that students will go for the overvalued qualifications and shun those which are undervalued.
(9) Fathom argues instead for changes that would direct any fresh electronic cash at what it sees as the source of the UK's economic crisis: an overvalued UK housing market.
(10) The patients with the left lesion were more characterized by psychastheniclike features, motor inhibition with marked rigidity and emotive poverty, torpidity of affects, hypochondriasis, readiness for overvalued formations.
(11) It also cites the bailout of banks involved in lending too much against "overvalued assets", saying: "Taxpayers have consequently been participants and losers in a process of unsustainable public service delivery."
(12) More specifically, the role of nurses who control the therapeutic milieu and provide 24-hour patient management within the inpatient setting has become devalued, while the newer role of the nurse in the outpatient settings is not only overvalued but is, in many instances, in conflict with the outpatient psychiatric services offered by other professions.
(13) We must try to build pressure to try to make that 2C assumption correct and the forecast of the energy companies wrong.” Stern’s intervention comes after Shell CEO Ben van Beurden told the Guardian that his company would continue to look for new reserves of oil and did not believe its assets were overvalued or unusable as a result of current or reasonably foreseeable future legislation concerning carbon.
(14) China’s currency no longer looks undervalued; it looks overvalued, making life a lot tougher for Chinese exporters competing with other Asian countries, including Japan, that have seen devaluations.
(15) The carbon bubble refers to the overvaluation of fossil fuel reserves and related assets should the world meet its stated aim of limiting climate change.
(16) Oracle said they weren't buyers because even at $6bn – Autonomy's stockmarket value at the time – it was overvalued.
(17) The Swiss central bank stunned markets by attempting to reverse the "massive overvaluation" of the Swiss franc, which hit record highs against the dollar as a perceived haven, by cutting interest rates.
(18) It wanted slower but more sustainable growth that gradually took the heat out of overvalued property and share prices.
(19) It must stay shackled to an overvalued rate of exchange lest the great European cause suffer and ever closer union be tarnished.
(20) "The penis is much overvalued," he declared to Connie.