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Approximate   /əprˈɑksəmət/  /əprˈɑksəmˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Approximate  adj.  
1.
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
2.
Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.


verb
Approximate  v. t.  (past & past part. approximated; pres. part. approximating)  
1.
To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. "To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature."
2.
To come near to; to approach. "The telescope approximates perfection."


Approximate  v. i.  To draw; to approach.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Approximate" Quotes from Famous Books



... not recognize any other nation in the same way. (Amos 3:2) The nation of Israel was used to make living pictures or types, foreshadowing better things to come; and those who study the Scriptural account of Israel's experiences are able to approximate closely future events which will be good for ...
— The Harp of God • J. F. Rutherford
... sir," I said, "if Hang-won could give us even an approximate idea of the position of the Russian ships in ...
— Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun - A Story of the Russo-Japanese War • Harry Collingwood
... the "Provincial Letters," their wit and their controversial effectiveness, the specimens given will have afforded readers some approximate idea. We must deny ourselves the gratification of presenting a brief passage, which we had selected and translated for the purpose, to exemplify from the same source Pascal's serious eloquence. It was Voltaire who ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson
... Wilhelmshaven. Another drawback is that not enough room is provided in these ships. On the steamers of the Hamburg-American Line, for example, only sixty-five per cent. of their normal passenger capacity can be utilized for troops which means at the most an approximate displacement of three net tons, so that only one man instead of two can be carried. An adjustment should be reached to the end that the entire freight capacity of the steamers ...
— Operations Upon the Sea - A Study • Franz Edelsheim
... where she failed was as to the time of his passing away. She saw at once that the illness was one from which he could not permanently recover, and gave the approximate time very tentatively. "We cannot see times exactly—they come only in symbols. For instance, I see now falling leaves; it looks like an autumn scene, and so I infer that means later ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates


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