uncertainty - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • quantify: Our aim is to quantify uncertainty in flow performance prediction due to uncertainty in a reservoir description.
  • associate: The uncertainty associated with the weights must be less than the resolution of the machine.
  • resolve: The selection stage should give the user as much help as possible in resolving this uncertainty.
  • prolong: The setting up of further investigation is likely to prolong the uncertainty surrounding Equitable.
  • reduce: Minimizing the delay will reduce further uncertainty about the industry created by the Equitable Life affair.
  • tolerate: Earlier in the Depression Learning Path, we talked about the importance of tolerating uncertainty when looking to overcome depression.

Converse of subject

  • characterize: Finally, innovation processes tend to be characterized by uncertainty rather than quantifiable risk.

Adjective modifier

  • positional: A positional uncertainty of 4 " indicates sources detected also by the HRI.
  • inherent: The innovator is an active information seeker, who can cope with the inherent uncertainty involved with innovation.
  • considerable: There was, again, considerable uncertainty in these results.
  • scientific: Government policy did not take into account the scientific uncertainty about the effects of the chemicals.
  • pervasive: A key challenge is how to manage this pervasive uncertainty in a principled fashion and, most importantly, in real-time.

Modifies a noun

  • principle: The electrons have an orbit of minimum energy from which they cannot fall into the nucleus without violating the uncertainty principle.

Noun used with modifier

  • measurement: The measurement uncertainty samples were analyzed in eight separate batches over a period of three weeks.
  • quantum: The second line we can draw derives from quantum uncertainty.

Preposition: in

  • prediction: Uncertainty in Predictions of the Climate Response to Rising Levels of Greenhouse Gases " .
  • estimation: Uncertainty in the estimation of critical loads: a practical methodology.
  • estimate: Another source of uncertainty in this estimate lies in our ignorance of some of the finer details of stellar evolution.

Preposition: of

  • extremist: N = 100, uncertainty of extremists: u e = 0.01, p e = 0.15, U = 1.2.

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