Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Approaching; coming near, as to some state or result.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Approaching; approximate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being an
estimate orapproximation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not quite exact or correct
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Examples
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(The amounts are approximative and come from public figures.)
American Wine Blog Awards 2008: Vote for Your Favorites 2008
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Moral or extrapatrimonial damage is often difficult to put a figure on in an exact or even approximative manner.
It pays to have hurt feelings when you complain to the HRC's Suzanne 2009
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The tune sounded consistent, but the lyrics a little approximative in places (including a reference to ketchup which I strongly suspected had no business being there whatsoever).
poupée de cire 2007
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The tune sounded consistent, but the lyrics a little approximative in places (including a reference to ketchup which I strongly suspected had no business being there whatsoever).
slim, sexy en druk 2007
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Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the valuations of special science have set upon it.
Les Miserables 2008
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A failure to notice these quam proxime forms in Book 1 blinds one to the subtlety of the approximative reasoning Newton employs in Book 3. 7.
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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I also admit that my culture in the field of LES is at best approximative .
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The answer is simple: Newton's reasoning is approximative.
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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Retour à la normale aussi vite que j'arrive à transférer les données avec la connection wifi très approximative que nous avons ici.
Michael Hampton is My Hero of the Day — Climb to the Stars 2006
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I don't, for instance, think treating 'is more valuable than' as a qualitative relation requires treating it as an approximative quantitative relation, as Smith claims it does.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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