What is "approximate"

Usage examples of "approximate".

When he arrived, because of the strongly anthropic nature of reality, our perceptions caused his particulate structure to begin decaying, changing toward something approximating our own, and he grew more and more human.

The alien had a short tail attached about where a tail should be, and his head approximated a sphere, with two eyes, a slit nostril, and a mouth about where their human counterparts were located.

Kaiser William used to knock down the castles of the baron robbers has been approximated by his warring tribes.

In all the world there is not a human being who has not contributed something to the awful cost and the loss due to the destruction of property, the stopping of industry, the waste of energy and the curtailment of human endeavor in the interest of civilization, and the effects which the struggle has had upon the world cannot even be approximated in dollars and cents.

This typical Tusayan feature is only slightly approximated in some subordinate rows within the court.

Pliocene, and who did not reach something approximating our present evolutionary form until just a few hundred thousand years ago.

She had no difficulty, by applying her will once more, in forming a patch of the flowing energies into something approximating a human shape.

Also, figure 121 is a plain arch approximating a tented arch as the rising ridge cannot be considered an upthrust because it is a continuous, and not an ending, ridge.

Eric stared at a room the approximate size of the Houston Astrodome, completely full of books.

The efforts of the statisticians had resulted in tables showing approximate collision probabilities at various radiuses from the sun for meteoroids down to masses of a few milligrams.

The translator tapes, incidentally, are approximately the same size, but this is no help, since the tapes represent pairings of approximate equivelants, and there are several English morphemes not translatable into the language of Priest-Kings, and, as I learned, morphemes in their language for which no English equivelants exist.

In sum, the unity exhibited in Being on the one hand approximates to Unity-Absolute and on the other tends to identify itself with Being: Being is a unity in relation to the Absolute, is Being by virtue of its sequence upon that Absolute: it is indeed potentially a plurality, and yet it remains a unity and rejecting division refuses thereby to become a genus.

These approximate rects are composed of small events, namely approximate routes and event-particles, which are passed away before the moving objects reach them.

The servery was a narrow room with one long aluminum table at which the diners could approximate sitting by hooking their knees around the railing half a meter down from each edge of the table.

But wait a minute-if it was fired recently, it would flunk the thermoluminescence test, which gave an approximate date of the last firing.