Helen Fenton

Approximation: Definition and part of speech

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Approximation

  1. n. A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.
  2. n. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.
  3. n. An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.
  4. n. A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation.

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.

Appulse: Definition and part of speech

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Appulse

  1. n. The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.
  2. n. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.

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.

Appurtenance: Definition and part of speech

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Appurtenance

  1. n. That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.

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.