Approximate
[ə'prɒksɪmət] or [ə'prɑksɪmət]
Definition
(verb.) be close or similar; 'Her results approximate my own'.
(adj.) located close together; 'with heads close together'; 'approximate leaves grow together but are not united' .
(adj.) very close in resemblance; 'sketched in an approximate likeness'; 'a near likeness' .
(adj.) not quite exact or correct; 'the approximate time was 10 o'clock'; 'a rough guess'; 'a ballpark estimate' .
Typed by Deirdre--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
(a.) Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
(v. t.) To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
(v. t.) To come near to; to approach.
(v. i.) To draw; to approach.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Proximate, approaching, coming near.[2]. Nearly correct, nearly accurate or true.
v. a. [Rare.] Bring near.
v. n. Approach, come near.
Edited by Cary
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Approach, resemble, border, abut, near, trench
ANT:Separate, differ, vary, recede, diverge, deviate
Checker: Peggy
Definition
adj. nearest or next: approaching correctness.—v.t. to bring near.—v.i. to come near to approach.—adv. Approx′imately.—n. Approximā′tion an approach: a result in mathematics not rigorously exact but so near the truth as to be sufficient for a given purpose.—adj. Approx′imative approaching closely.
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Examples
- We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was the constant attempt to approximate the conditions of successful assassination that accompanied the demolition. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In a rough way and with many exceptions, democracy compels law to approximate human need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These plants represent an approximate investment of $500,000,000, and the connection of not less than 25,000,000 incandescent lamps or their equivalent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An approximate ohm for rough work in the laboratory may be made by winding 9 feet 5 inches of number 30 copper wire on a spool or arranging it in any other convenient form. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He approximated more closely than the Egyptians the solution of the problem of the relation between the area of a circle and the radius. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then there are the factories where these incandescent lamps are made, about forty in number, representing a total investment that may be approximated at $25,000,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Our speed must have approximated two hundred miles an hour, for Martian fliers are swift, so that at most we were in the shaft not over forty seconds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The piece of lime glows with an intense brilliancy approximating that of the electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A single volume is of necessity too limited a space for anything approximating a complete record of the vast progress which has been made in American Industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The more human the purpose, or the more it approximates the ends which appeal in daily experience, the more real the knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To-day the New York collection amounts to nearly 30,000, while that of the National Bureau of Identification at Chicago approximates 100,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Wanda