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/əprˌɑksəmˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Approximation n.

The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. "The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature."

An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.

(Math.)

(a)

A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation.

(b)

A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.

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Etymology of 'Approximation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... formula should not be used. As the period between firing and the maximum temperature is increased, the plotted results are further and further away from the theoretical straight line curve. Where this period is not over five intervals, or two and a half minutes, an approximation of the straight line curve may be plotted by eye, and ordinarily the radiation correction to be applied may be determined very closely ...

— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.

... tidal pull of its victim. But a close approach of that kind would be expected to result in the formation of a binary system, with orbits of great eccentricity, perhaps, and after the lapse of a certain time the outburst should be renewed by another approximation of the two bodies. A temporary star of that kind would rather ...

— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss

... known. The simplest physical peculiarity is mostly reproduced. I know a case of a man whose wife has the lobe of one of her ears a little flattened. An ordinary observer might scarcely notice it, and yet every one of her children has an approximation to the same peculiarity to some extent. If you look at the other extreme, too, the gravest diseases, such as gout, scrofula, and consumption, may be handed down with just the same certainty and persistence as we noticed in the perpetuation ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... spontaneous claims of her own individual nature. Just as the readjustment of Labour is really only an approach to the long recognised ideals of Democracy, so the readjustment of the Home, far from being subversive or revolutionary, is merely an approximation to the ...

— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis

... statue of the Magdalen in Santa Trinita at Florence shows Desiderio's approximation to the style of his master. She is a careworn and ascetic saint, with the pathetic traces of great ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

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