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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



... investigations of the murdered man's room this afternoon gave us several clues, not the least important of which is that we are enabled to fix the actual time of the murder with some degree of accuracy. It is always useful, in a case of murder, to be able to establish the approximate time at which it was committed. In this case, the murder was certainly committed between the hours of 11 p.m. and 11.30 p.m., and, in all probability, not much ...
— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees
... opposite sides of Ashley and Cooper Rivers, and from the neighboring islands; and they came in a great number of canoes of various sizes,—many of which could carry a hundred men,—which were ordinarily employed in bringing agricultural products to the Charleston market. To get an approximate knowledge of the number, the city government once ordered the persons thus arriving to be counted,—and that during the progress of the trials, at a time when the negroes were rather fearful of coming into town; and it was found, that, ...
— Black Rebellion - Five Slave Revolts • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... 2. The protection of naturalized citizens. 3. The construction of a Pacific railroad. 4. The acquisition of the Island of Cuba. But upon the principal topic, the question of slavery in the Territories, they felt compelled to report that even an approximate unanimity was impossible. In undisguised sorrow they proceeded to present two radically different reports. The convention, not yet in the least realizing that the great Democratic party had suffered fatal shipwreck in the secret committee-room, listened eagerly to the reports and explanatory ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay
... evidently built so near one another to afford shelter to travellers who may be unable to cross the ridge during heavy snow-storms." The next march continued the descent for 14 miles, and then carried him 10 miles along the banks of the Rudkhanah-i-Shor. The approximate height of the pass above the sea is estimated at 8000 feet. We have thus for the descent the greater part of . . . . 2 3. "Clumps of date-palms growing near the village showed that I had now reached a totally ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... A third method of finding tempi is through the interpretation of certain words used quite universally by composers to indicate the approximate rate of speed and the general mood of compositions. The difficulty with this method is that one can hardly find two composers who employ the same word to indicate the same tempo, so that no absolute rate of speed can be indicated, and in the last analysis the conductor or performer must ...
— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens


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