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approximate

[adj. uh-prok-suh-mit; v. uh-prok-suh-meyt]

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adjective

near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.

nearly exact; not perfectly accurate or correct: The approximate time was 10 o'clock.

near; close together.

very similar; nearly identical.

verb (used with object)

to come near to; approach closely to: to approximate an ideal.

to estimate: We approximated the distance at three miles.

to simulate; imitate closely: The motions of the stars can be approximated in a planetarium.

to bring near.

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verb (used without object)

to come near in position, character, amount, etc.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin approximātus drawn near to, approached (past participle of approximāre). See ap-¹, proximate

Related forms

ap·prox·i·mate·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

Everyone put kernels of corn in their shoes to approximate the aches that come from losing fatty tissue.

Prices and number of pages are sometimes approximate.

The controllers' radar only shows planes' approximate positions, so they must space them well apart.

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Everyone put kernels of corn in their shoes to approximate the aches that come from losing fatty tissue.

Prices and number of pages are sometimes approximate.

The controllers' radar only shows planes' approximate positions, so they must space them well apart.

Find the approximate location of your town and mark it with a dot.

Approximate quantum calculations predict that black holes slowly evaporate, albeit in a paradoxical way.

And it happens, to put it in approximate terms, all the time.

Our hope was that the leaf bags would approximate an air-bag, allowing the treehouse to survive the impact of landing.

One tip: when you finally determine an approximate range, try to take into account cost-of-living in the area you're considering.

Radio, back in the day, functioned to give me a sense of the approximate value of a product before they bought it.

Ask them to label the approximate locations of the different wolf subspecies.

Approximate timescale for degradation can be set at manufacture as required.

Intel said that the performance will approximate surfing with multiple windows open on the same machine.

Tell them the approximate algorithm you are using so they won't feel slighted.

They have allegedly indulged in approximate security norms on the drilling infrastructure.

Approximate distribution of the six major language families discussed in this study.

The duo adapted techniques ecologists use to approximate species' numbers.

It must have known a close approximate if not the exact number of barrels of oil produced per day.

How you can approximate the diamond's position yourself is fairly easy.

Charging by the bit is the best way to approximate this.

The color in the image was overlaid on a black-and-white image, to approximate what how the scene would look to our eyes.

The following chart gives approximate detection periods for each substance by test type.

Our goal was to approximate how people learn in real life.

It then geotags photos with your approximate location.

He is at best an approximate fiction which the statisticians thoroughly distrust, but which serves some remote use in bringing.

Proving that a solution exists is nowhere near as important as solving the problem in even an approximate way.

Winner will not receive difference between actual and approximate retail value.

Wikipedia actually describes a simple thought experiment that seems to approximate the method employed here:.

These numbers are approximate but they paint a tragic picture.

Students can make a bar graph to accompany the map naming the exploited regions involved and their approximate acreage.

Oral and armpit temperatures can approximate actual body temperature and are more convenient to measure.

But his enemies make up for this by having the approximate combined intelligence of half a potato chip.

Draw the approximate outline, then cut out each piece.

Have them click and drag a rectangle around the approximate area of their home state to zoom in on that region.

And all of this, remember, to approximate the sorts of things our own faces do automatically.

Approximate these soil conditions in the garden, and heath family plants will be happy.

Ask them to approximate the coordinates of their hometown.

The extra hospital costs alone approximate the price of drug treatment for a crack addict during the months of her pregnancy.

Any difference between actual retail value of prize and the approximate retail value will not be awarded.

The blue lines illustrate the approximate geomorphic extent of the floodplain.

Statistical methods were employed to approximate the emission time so that the total propagation time could be estimated.

Have each student label the line with the approximate date of the family's.

Likewise, the size of the bite marks indicated the activity of an animal the approximate size of a brown.

Otherwise, dots are placed within the square brackets to indicate the approximate number of letters missing.

Rambaut reverse-engineered an approximate starting date for the outbreak.

Have students find the approximate location of their town and mark it with a dot.

Plasma uses a technology known as approximate dynamic programming to examine mountains of historical data.

Ask them to find their state and the approximate location of their home town.

The idea is to approximate going barefoot as much as possible, while providing a layer of puncture resistance for your feet.

He possesses the approximate physique of a stick figure.

The approximate present distribution of the species is outlined in yellow.

The result is surface texture that can approximate brushstrokes.

He had a short nest of hair precisely moussed by some hundred-fingered stylist to approximate bed head.

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World English Dictionary

approximate

—*adj*
1.	almost accurate or exact
2.	inexact; rough; loose: only an approximate fit
3.	much alike; almost the same
4.	near; close together

—vb
5.	(usually foll by to) to come or bring near or close; be almost the same (as)
6.	maths See accurate to find an expression for (some quantity) accurate to a specified degree

[C15: from Late Latin approximāre, from Latin proximus nearest, from prope near]

ap'proximative

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

approximate

1640s, from L. approximatus, pp. of approximare "to come near to," from ad- "to" + proximare "come near," from proximus "nearest," superlative of prope "near." The verb is 1650s, from the adjective. Related: Approximately (1845).

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Medical Dictionary

approximate ap·prox·i·mate (ə-prŏk'sə-māt')
v. ap·prox·i·mat·ed, ap·prox·i·mat·ing, ap·prox·i·mates
To bring together, as cut edges of tissue. adj. (-mĭt)

Relating to the contact surfaces, either proximal or distal, of two adjacent teeth; proximate.
Close together. Used of the teeth in the human jaw.

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