The Collaborative International Dictionary
Approximate \Ap*prox"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Approximated; p. pr. & vb. n. Approximating.]
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To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature.
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To come near to; to approach.
The telescope approximates perfection.
--J. Morse.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of approximate English)
Usage examples of "approximating".
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.
The boat is rocked by the small deaths, as the fisherman and his sons whom I have paid to bring me out steer it at my request to provide me with the view most approximating that of the print.
I could not locate anything approximating it, though I do have a partly blocked view of Fuji-blocked in a similar manner, by a slope-from this bench I occupy in a small park.
Beside each species, a country and number approximating the count of those remaining on Earth.