Sentence examples for serve as approximate from inspiring English sources

All of these explosions are thought to have roughly the same intrinsic brilliance, so they can serve as approximate "standard candles," whose apparent brightness is a measure of their distance from Earth.

The genomic co-ordinates of the oligonucleotide probes that detected the antisense species described above can only serve as approximate estimations as to their start and end points.

These estimates served as approximate values, which allowed normalizing for different phylogenetic branch lengths when determining the rate of SSOG emergence.

But the overall drop in the amount of December mail might serve as an approximate indicator.

As asset flows among these funds serve as an approximate proxy for the overall market, we should expect money to start pumping back into stocks as well.

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.

Although MPHR is not established in the (denervated) HTx population and therefore may only serve as an approximate parameter for cardiac stress in HTx patients, the targeted MPHR was virtually achieved in our cohort.

Determination of BP in such products can serve as an approximate estimate of carcinogenic properties.

The indication of the lectin content shall only serve as an approximate orientation, and does not claim precision nor sole clinical relevance.

This case is of interest to us since we believe that it could serve as an approximate model for epidemiological data.

This dataset can thus serve as an approximate reference for the kind of spread in apparent mRNA-specific translation efficiencies that is falsely generated by noise in the underlying studies.