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Approximation

noun

An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth. Synonyms: estimate, estimation, idea. "A rough idea how long it would take"

The quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity).

An imprecise or incomplete account.

The act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue. Synonym: bringing close together.

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"Approximation" Quotes from Famous Books

... too, eager to get in the moment she could give it a chance. She began studying the girls for their individual peculiarities of style. Each one of the costumes she made was going to be for a particular girl, suited, without losing its place in the general plan, to the enhancement of her special approximation to beauty. ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... say that of all the customs prevailing in the different parts of Europe, not excepting the most civilized states of Germany, this one of making the women do all the heavy work strikes me as the nearest approximation to the perfection of domestic discipline. The Diggers of California and the Kaffres of Africa understand this thing exactly, and no man of any spirit belonging to those tribes would any more think of performing ...

— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne

... reading vocabulary is the largest. There are thousands of words he recognizes in reading and although he might not be able to construct a dictionary definition for everyone, he has a sufficiently clear idea to grasp the meaning. In this rude approximation to sense he is aided by the context, but for all practical purposes he understands the word. If he were writing, carefully taking time to note exactly what he was expressing, he might recall that word and so consciously put it into a sentence. He might use it in exactly the same ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... approximation in type between the main features in these and those in the fractures produced by the modern bullet is very striking. In the case of the shafts of the long bones, the same stellate, oblique, wedge-shaped, and even ...

— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins

... not necessary, as these small creatures might easily be conveyed among the branches or in the crevices of trees uprooted by floods and carried down to the sea, and then floated to a shore many miles distant. That no actual land connection with, or very close approximation to, an Asiatic island has occurred in recent times, is sufficiently proved by the fact that no squirrel, pig, civet, or other widespread mammal of the Eastern hemisphere has been able to reach the ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

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