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Approximate   /əprˈɑksəmət/  /əprˈɑksəmˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Approximate  adj.  
1.
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
2.
Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.


verb
Approximate  v. t.  (past & past part. approximated; pres. part. approximating)  
1.
To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. "To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature."
2.
To come near to; to approach. "The telescope approximates perfection."


Approximate  v. i.  To draw; to approach.





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"Approximate" Quotes from Famous Books



... find out as near as possible where we are bound for. I am a good-enough sailor to be able to estimate the approximate speed of a ship. In my opinion the Ebba has been travelling at the rate of from ten to eleven knots an hour. As to the direction we have been going in, it is always the same, and I have been able to verify this by casual glances ...
— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne
... snatch-block fastened to the top of the iron previously built; or, where the roof was in soft ground, the timbering furnished points of attachment. The end of the wire rope was then hooked to a bolt hole in a new plate, two men at the winch lifted the plate, and three or four others swung it into approximate place, and, with the aid of bars and drift-pins, coaxed it into position and bolted it. Where there was no timbering above the iron, sometimes the key and adjoining plates were set on blocking on a timber staging and ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard
... back to his camp, equipped all his lights with the Benson curve. He was somewhere at the crater base now. But not where I thought I saw him! The Benson curve light changed the path of the light rays traveling from him to me, I could not even approximate his true position! ...
— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings
... there was a man whose face was the approximate shape and color of a slightly used waffle. He looked up from his crossword puzzle as Malone came in, apparently trying to decide whether or not this new visitor should ...
— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett
... determining either the proportion between the different forms or usages which occur within a given region or period, or the proportion which obtains, within a heterogeneous group, between members belonging to different classes. This procedure gives us an approximate idea of the frequency of facts and the proportion between the different elements of a society; it can even show what species of facts are most commonly found together, and are therefore probably connected. But in order that the method may be employed correctly it is necessary that the samples should ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois


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