Sentences with phrase «magnitude than direction»

Many of my calls were less accurate in magnitude than direction.

Not exact matches

Producing a cloak to hide objects from visible light, which has a wavelength several orders of magnitude smaller than microwaves — let alone cloaking objects when viewed from any direction — seemed a more remote possibility.

• A beta greater than 1 indicates that the portfolio will move in the same direction as the market, with a higher magnitude, and is very sensitive to systematic risk.

From the table above, we are able to see that the long - term historical duration estimate correctly projected the direction of the period return; but in all three time periods, the actual return was of greater magnitude than the expected return.

Honestly, anybody who claims that «there has been global cooling or that global warming has halted since 2000 (or whatever)» really does not understand climatic trends nor the difference between a long - term underlying trend vs. short - term fluctuations which have a larger magnitude (in both directions) than the trend.

This is particularly true because if the consensus view is wrong about the magnitude and timing of climate change it could be wrong in both directions, that is, climate change impacts could be much worse and more rapid than the impacts identified by IPCC and the US Academy of Sciences even if they also could be less harmful in regard to timing and magnitude.