0 an approximate calculation of the size or amount of something when you do not know all the facts:
1 a calculation of the size or amount of something when you do not know all the facts:
2 an approximate calculation of the size or amount of something:
These parameter values are ' guesstimates ' chosen with reference to an investigation into age-intensity profiles on onchocerciasis.
Thus, each of the responsible central authorities, on the basis of whatever information it has access to, has to make its own guesstimates.
They are all guesstimates which have been plucked from the air.
We have only guesstimates about the response to the enterprise initiative in the assisted areas.
He then went on to a guesstimate, saying that he thought that the problem would cost up to £3 billion in the wider public arena.
Will it not make it very difficult for the inquiry if it has to guesstimate the numbers of children involved?
I shall not pursue any political guesstimates about which local authorities are best at handling repairs.
My guesstimate is that they might be worth around £5 million to the major parties.
