Sentence examples for first approximations from inspiring English sources

Relationship between measured strength and modulus provides the first approximations, corroborated by coinciding values from nondestructive testing.

Generally, the weighting functions are logically and geometrically deduced in a deterministic manner, and hence, they are imaginary first approximations for regional variability assessments, such as wind velocity.

While decomposition indices based on initial litter quality provide a broad explanation of quantitative and qualitative decomposition, they can only be taken as first approximations.

What we really needed, I'd submit, was a large number of economists ready and willing to go for good first approximations – quick and dirty but intellectually sophisticated approaches that would let them respond to a radically changed economic environment.

First approximations of the structural and chemical contributions to the interfacial energy accompanying the changes in hcp to bcc phase stability for Zr have been evaluated.

The traditional load determination methods, such as the cooling load temperature difference method or rules of thumb, are rough and first approximations based on old correlations or simplified heat transfer calculations.

To a first approximation, yes.

To a first approximation, all of it.

That's our first approximation.

Warrant: A First Approximation: Alvin Plantinga.33.

To a first approximation, there aren't any.