APPROXIMATE

a. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

2.
a.

Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values. Approximate quantities (Math.), those which are nearly, but not, equal.

3.
v.

To carry or advance near; to cause to approach. To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature. Burke.

4.
v.

To come near to; to approach. The telescope approximates perfection. J. Morse.

5.
v.

To draw; to approach.

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