approximate calculation

Fermi was known for his ability to make good approximate calculations with little or no actual data, hence the name.

An approximate calculation, plus or minus three inches.

"The main deflector has been reconfigured, and approximate calculations have been completed."

Since this is an approximate calculation, the actual gas guzzler tax may be off by one tax bracket.

Jonathan Halliwell and I have made an approximate calculation of what the no-boundary condition would imply.

This is only an approximate calculation: it was night when he woke, but he was as if reborn.

Soubise picked up the sheets of paper, read them over again, and made an approximate calculation.

Relatively simple approximate calculations, however, using the variables of equilibrium thermodynamics, are of much practical value in engineering.

I must then at least do an approximate calculation of the potential climatic effects of the global increase in energy production.

Two approximate calculations give the number of atoms in the observable universe to be close to 10.