approximate
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
approximate
▶adjective /əˈprɒksɪmət/ fairly accurate but not totally precise. ▶verb /əˈprɒksɪmeɪt/ come close in quality or quantity.
■ estimate fairly accurately.
– derivatives
approximately adverb,
approximation noun,
approximative adjective.
approximately adverb,
approximation noun,
approximative adjective.
– origin ME: from late L. approximat-, approximare, from ad- ‘to’ + proximus ‘very near’.
'approximate' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjust
- approx.
- ballpark
- body mass index
- converge
- crude
- estimate
- gimmick
- half-hunter
- -ish
- khamsin
- Monte Carlo method
- proximate
- quantize
- rough
- somewhere
- square
- thereabouts
