Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of estimating, comparing, or judging.
- Meditative; contemplative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating.
- adjective rare Pertaining to an estimate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
estimate or toestimation
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Examples
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We are now entering the all-important ambiguous territory of what is known in intelligence circles as “estimative language.”
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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We are now entering the all-important ambiguous territory of what is known in intelligence circles as “estimative language.”
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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They repeat the mistake in not seeming to realize how deceptive estimative language is in the world outside their spy caves.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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They repeat the mistake in not seeming to realize how deceptive estimative language is in the world outside their spy caves.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Consider, for a moment, the likelihood that such estimative modeling will be used to value the troubled assets some banks are now looking to shed.
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The first book covers the functions of the vegetative soul (nutrition, growth and reproduction), of the sensitive soul (the five external senses), and of the cogitative soul (the internal senses, i.e., a variety of cognitive faculties, including imagination, fantasy and the estimative power, which are located in the three ventricles of the brain, and whose acts follows from the acts of the external senses).
Juan Luis Vives [Joannes Ludovicus Vives] Casini, Lorenzo 2009
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The three are mutually supportive: basic intelligence is the foundation on which the other two are constructed; current intelligence continually updates the inventory of knowledge; and estimative intelligence revises overall interpretations of country and issue prospects for guidance of basic and current intelligence.
History 2008
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Avicenna believes that the intentions that the estimative faculty obtains are received in the third and rear ventricle of the brain, in memory, hafizah.
Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008
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Avicenna posits the existence of an estimative faculty in order to explain the innate ability in all animals (humans included) to sense a non-sensible intention
Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008
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The three types of finished intelligence are: basic, current, and estimative.
History 2008
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