Sentence examples for a straight approximation of from inspiring English sources

Generally, the tone's a little closer to the chatty informality of something like This American Life than the New Yorker's austere authoritativeness (you suspect that a straight approximation of the latter wouldn't transfer terribly well to television) but is informative enough.

The thick blue line in b is a straight-line approximation of the north source with the west end at x 483; y 9666; and h 1643 m, the east end at x 5238; y 11,972; and h 1775 m, and its center at x 2861; y 10,819; and h 1838 m.

The graph of the estimated regression equation for simple linear regression is a straight line approximation to the relationship between y and x.

He used A-type earthquakes, in which short-period component of around 10 Hz predominates, with straight-line approximation of ray path between the epicenters and seismic stations in the island.

Simmons and Pearl play it relatively straight, going for a sobersides approximation of how people might be assumed to have spoken and thought 140 years ago, but occasionally betraying themselves by lapses into modern Yankee demotic.

Over the range in which eq 26 is a valid approximation, a plot of R S against ln(V/ N) yields a straight line of slope b and intercept R0.

Before the eviction, the UN Park was less a shanty town than an approximation of a suburb.

She does a better impersonation of a person than we do an approximation of a dog.

The vocal's pretty much played straight and the Korg M1 melody is a bland approximation of everything MK did the first time round.

Overhead, a papier-mâché approximation of a whale skeleton hung from the ceiling.

Which I guess is a pretty fair approximation of a rave, headspace-wise.