approximate
adjective
near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.
approximative
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a word derived from
approximate.
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a word derived from
approximation.
approximationnouna guess or estimate.
Example Sentences
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But as most of the equations in our calculation are approximative, I prefer that the element of gravitation should be handled in a general way.
From A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake
It is evident that these calculations are only approximative, but they can also be proved in another way.
From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
One hundred and eighty to three hundred feet per second is the rate of movement assigned for sensation, but all such results must be very vaguely approximative.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
All that we can do is to approximate to the meaning that he gave to them, remembering that our translation of them into the language of to-day can be approximative only.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
But a very probable approximative one can be arrived at, thanks to a clue supplied by the same Nabonidus, last King of Babylon, who settled the Sargon question for us so unexpectedly.
From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
