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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The reader can therefore procure from the statistics of these periods only an approximative idea of the values of crops and the wealth created by their passing into trade.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various
Instances of the alternation, either total or approximative, of these principles are many and familiar.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
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
As we remarked before, these figures and valuations, which are sufficiently approximative of accuracy for any useful purpose, will take public men and economists, both here and in Spain, by surprise.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
No rational thinker hopes to discover more than some few primary actions of law, and some approximative theory of growth.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
