What is "approximates"

Usage examples of "approximates".

As punishment, the reactive mind, the closer she slides into being herself, approximates the conditions of the other valence in the engram.

It has an action in the mind which approximates another entity than self.

These phantasmal Intelligences are divided into groups, of which one only, that of the Pities, approximates to "the Universal Sympathy of human nature--the spectator idealized"(1) of the Greek Chorus.

Guizot adds, the "ingenious conjecture of a philosophic theologian," which approximates to an opinion long entertained by the Editor.

Hallam justly observes, in the least approximates to what is called the Gothic style.

The Americans tried to figure out why these island people liked Spam so much, and it turns out that nothing else approximates the taste of cooked human flesh like the salty porky taste of Spam.

While the ages given in these lists are the result of much careful study of all the latest available data, and are believed, when not exact, to be very close approximates.

The sharp-featured squad leader shakes his head as the four-abreast column, lances still ready, rides along the dirt lane that approximates a road through the hamlet.

It approximates a constant pattern often-second intervals, just as T'Kreng said, but the actual pattern is much more complex.

He does not fall perpendicularly, the angle of his fall is prolonged and very low, and the swifter he goes the more nearly it approximates to the horizontal.

Every man in the infancy of art observes an order which approximates more or less closely to that from which this highest delight results: but the diversity is not sufficiently marked, as that its gradations should be sensible, except in those instances where the predominance of this faculty of approximation to the beautiful (for so we may be permitted to name the relation between this highest pleasure and its cause) is very great.

In every age, whatever is astir, literature, theology, all intellectual activity, takes one and the same drift, and approximates in color.

As the number of the sides increases, a Polygon approximates to a Circle.

Nothing of man's making is perfect, but any creation approximates perfection in the measure that it conforms to inevitable law.