Approximate: Definition and part of speech

Approximate

  1. a. Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
  2. a. Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
  3. v. t. To come near to; to approach.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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