to approximate
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4.6
- verb
- /əˈprɒksɪmeɪt/
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aproximarse a
- The point of the training program, gentlemen, is to develop skills in our primate subjects which approximate those required by human pilots to complete their missions.
- closely approximate
- more closely approximate
- approximate a normal distribution
And then finally it meets or begins to approximate our actual consciousness.
- And then finally it meets or begins to approximate our actual consciousness.
- We have our our example that approximates the way we eat.
- We can think about all sorts of power relations that approximate to servitude.
- And so I think nogi more closely approximates MMA.
- These are the words that best approximate the kinds of emotions that create the coherence.
- And people will report that no contact can bring up grief, that nothing even approximating a middle ground could be created.
- So to say it is an ellipse, just no, just we will approximate it as an ellipse and be happy with that.
- In my view, Chipola and his audience approximate the right mixture of shabbiness and terrifying sublimity.
- Some, some sort of mimicking of yeah, it's, it's not, it's, it's not approximating the pressure activity.
- But like every human attempt to approximate the ore of God will will necessarily be be beholden to our failures as immoral creatures.
Examples
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So Newton's method is a way of approximating solutions.
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The Canadian measure approximates near-poverty status, a measure of demonstrated predictive validity in the United States.
Academic text (2011) -
And, you know, we are, we are so small and we can really only just approximate an understanding of that.
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So this bad boy will approximate F always when we're close to zero.
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And do these approximate what you saw?
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To be sure, any legal definition will more nearly approximate one religious opinion than another.
Academic text (1990) -
All we need to do is track down the main signal, and then we can approximate its location within a 20-mile radius.
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Achieve pregnancy outcomes in women with diabetes that approximate those in women without diabetes.
Academic text (2012) -
Within each country, we find something approximating the free movement of goods, capital, and people across borders.
Academic text (1993) -
The estimates we made in the meeting will approximate the total costs of the project.
Synonyms
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2.9
To be almost as good as something in quality or amount
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3.8
Be similar to something in meaning, amount or place
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5.1
To come very close to being something
How Similar
Surface Forms
Etymology
Approximate comes from Latin ad- ('to') and proximus ('near'), so as a verb it originally meant 'to come near'. That is why when things approximate each other they become close in value, amount, or nature.