Breedlove looked at relative finger length because it is influenced by androgen levels in the womb and thus is an approximate measure of fetal androgen levels.
The Gini coefficient is an approximate measure of the scale of the wealth gap in a society, with a coefficient of zero representing perfect equality.
The measure of practical salinity was originally developed to provide an approximate measure of the total mass of salt in one kilogram of seawater.
To establish the proposition, Newton derived an approximate measure for the force by using small lines defined in terms of the radius (the line from the force centre to the particle) and the tangent to the curve at a point.
The robustness of a solution of the design problem is computed as an approximate measure of what will be saved or lost if the environment becomes the unexpected.
The acidity function H0 frequently is found to be independent of the nature of the indicator and to give an approximate measure of the catalytic power of the acid solution.
The vibrational stretching frequency of a bond between two atoms, for example, gives an approximate measure of the bonding forces holding those two atoms together, the effective masses of the two atoms being allowed for.
The clearance of creatinine was used as a measure of renal function before inulin was discovered; because this substance is found naturally in plasma, creatinine clearance is still widely used as an approximate measure of the GFR.
The Bellwether: Blue Earth County Look to Blue Earth County, anchored by Mankato, for an approximate measure of the final statewide margin between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney on Nov. 6.
And since the DAU is an approximate measure of player engagement which, in turn, is directly correlated to revenue generation, average player lifetime turns out to have an obvious effect on a game's money-making potential.
The quantified values serve as an approximate measure of the degree of pressure each sub-criterion expresses for lawmakers to regulate in a given way.
