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approximate
[ adjective uh-prok-suh-mit; verb uh-prok-suh-meyt ]
adjective
- near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.
- nearly exact; not perfectly accurate or correct:
The approximate time was 10 o'clock.
- near; close together.
- very similar; nearly identical.
verb (used with object)
- to come near to; approach closely to:
to approximate an ideal.
- to estimate:
We approximated the distance at three miles.
- to simulate; imitate closely:
The motions of the stars can be approximated in a planetarium.
- to bring near.
verb (used without object)
- to come near in position, character, amount, etc.
approximate
adjective
- almost accurate or exact
- inexact; rough; loose
only an approximate fit
- much alike; almost the same
- near; close together
verb
- usually foll by to to come or bring near or close; be almost the same (as)
- maths to find an expression for (some quantity) accurate to a specified degree See accurate
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Derived Forms
- apˈproximative, adjective
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Other Words From
- ap·proxi·mate·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of approximate1
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Example Sentences
Total approximate retail value of all prizes awarded is $ 3899.97.
By 2018, Chinese wealth is expected to approximate the level of US wealth in 1993.
I figure out the approximate outline, the sequence of subject matter for the chapter, numbering the material.
And nobody had reported a missing child of that approximate age.
The red line is the approximate break-even price of the average tar sands producer.
For accuracy, 500 to 1000 leukocytes must be classified; for approximate results, 200 are sufficient.
His skin was of so light a yellow color as to approximate to dirty white, and his face was pock-marked from neck to crown.
They are for the most part straight, and intersect each other at approximate right angles.
It is impossible to arrive at even an approximate estimate of the number of victims of the early persecutions.
The approximate date is probably about the middle of the fifteenth century.
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