Engineers must consider the thermal expansion of bridge materials when designing spans for extreme seasonal temperature changes.
工程师在设计桥梁跨度时必须考虑材料在极端季节温差下的热膨胀。
- She wrote what is now considered the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
A folklorist studying an oral storytelling tradition found that tellers under the age of 35 could recount only about a third as many traditional proverbs as tellers over 65, even though both groups had grown up in the same village and were considered fluent, skilled storytellers by community elders.
From a Inferences question · Information and Ideas
Beavers are considered a keystone species because their dam-building activity creates wetland habitats that support a wide range of other plants, fish, birds, and amphibians that would not otherwise thrive in the area.
From a Central Ideas and Details question · Information and Ideas
Which choice best defines “consider”?
B — To think about carefully. “consider” means to think about carefully.
Which word means “to think about carefully”?
C — consider. “consider” means to think about carefully.
consider — to think about carefully. In Chinese: 考虑.
consider is pronounced /kənˈsɪdər/.
Engineers must consider the thermal expansion of bridge materials when designing spans for extreme seasonal temperature changes. (工程师在设计桥梁跨度时必须考虑材料在极端季节温差下的热膨胀。)
contemplate, ponder, reflect on — all close in meaning to consider (to think about carefully).
ignore, dismiss — each the opposite of consider (to think about carefully).
Yes. consider is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.