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In general, if we are approximating an integral, we are doing so because we cannot compute the exact value of the integral itself easily.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

It is not, of course, necessary that, because Englishmen are approximating to the American system in this particular, they should be unable to avoid adopting its worst American abuses.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry

To dream of jessamine, denotes you are approximating some exquisite pleasure, but which will be fleeting.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman

We have not attained, perhaps, all the information necessary to secure the best rations for winter milking, yet we are approximating toward that knowledge.

From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various