approximation

The hallucination is visually incoherent, either a rough approximation of text or a random assemblage of letters.

Which is where the performance of Vera Farmiga comes in, with its impressively sly approximation of neurotic spontaneity.

This is the closet Bordo comes to a phenomenological approximation of what it was like to be Anne Boleyn.

To the second point, Reinhart and Rogoff had, to a first approximation, zero actual effect on policy.

There are, to a first approximation, zero healthy adoptable babies in the US foster care system.

History can never be other than an approximation to the truth, even when it relates to the events and characters of its own age.

There is much reason to question the entire accuracy of these returns, yet there is doubtless an approximation to the truth.

Let us see what degree of approximation can practically be made to the necessary precision.

It is not only impossible to do this completely, but even to do so much of it as should constitute a tolerable approximation.

At noon an observation by the meridian altitude of the sun's lower limb gave us 35 30′, as an approximation to our latitude.