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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’.
'approximately' also found in these Oxford entries:
about
- along
- anomalistic month
- anomalistic year
- approximate
- around
- bar
- bathypelagic
- beam sea
- circa
- classical
- conoid
- cubit
- deuterium
- diphycercal
- duodenum
- e
- en
- fluid ounce
- g
- grain
- hin
- IMAX
- kilogram
- kilometre
- lunar year
- maxi
- mile
- monzonite
- more
- Munro
- nautical mile
- neighbourhood
- noon
- notchback
- Old Testament
- or
- order
- ounce
- peer group
- perch
- pi
- pion
- quart
- region
- rood
- rotary wing
- roughly
- salmanazar
- sea mile
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Part of Speech of Words in 'by Approximately Five O'clock'
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approximately
Approximately equal to vs. approximately
approximately vs. around
Approximately, about, nearly and roughly ?
Approximately, minimum size for use?
by approximately 30% or by 30% approximately
Estimates and approximately
Part of Speech of Words in 'by Approximately Five O'clock'
The city had 'approximately' 1234 inhabitants
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