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noun

Approximation n.

The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. "The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature."

An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.

(Math.)

(a)

A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation.

(b)

A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.

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Etymology of 'Approximation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Approximation" Quotes from Famous Books

... are necessary in order to assist and control the motion of the link at and near the dead-points. The arc of the pitch-curves through which the teeth must extend will vary with their eccentricity; but in many cases it would not be greater than that which in the approximation may be struck about one centre; so that, in fact, it would not be necessary to go through the process of rectifying and subdividing the quarter of the ellipse at all, as in this case it can make no possible ...

— Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught • Joshua Rose

... the Nipe's body had been built, with the best approximation possible of the Nipe's bone structure and musculature, and Stanton worked with it to determine what, if any, were the Nipe's ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... fast and so near that they could talk together about Walter, though but the adoptive brother of the one, and the real son of the other. Richard had inherited, apparently, his wife's love to Molly, and added to it his own; but their union had its root in the perfect truthfulness of the two. Real approximation, real union must ever be in proportion to mutual truthfulness. It was quite after the usual fashion, therefore, between them, when Molly began, to tell her father about the conversation she had had ...

— Home Again • George MacDonald

... our earliest friend and ally in the infancy of our political existence the most friendly relations have subsisted through the late revolutions of its Government, and, from the events of the last, promise a permanent duration. It has made an approximation in some of its political institutions to our own, and raised a monarch to the throne who preserves, it is said, a friendly recollection of the period during which he acquired among our citizens the high consideration that could then have ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... likelihood of its being discovered. His most intimate friends appear to have been kept in the dark on this subject. With respect to his country, the most probable conclusion seems to be, that he was born in the south of Europe, in a city of Languedoc. A very near approximation seems to be made to the exact locality by a careful collation of the circumstances mentioned in his autobiography, in the excellent summary of his life in the Gentleman's Magazine, vols. xxxiv. and xxxv., which is much better worth consulting than the articles ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 • Various

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