Definitions
located close together
Word origin
From Middle English approximaten (“to bring, put close (to)”), from approximat(e) (“close, near (to); similar; intimate”, also used as the past participle of approximaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin approximātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Used in a sentence
“approximate results or values”
“NASA’s Genesis spacecraft has on board an ion monitor to record the speed, density, temperature and approximate composition of the solar wind ions.”
“I approximated the value of pi by taking 22 divided by 7.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Close but not exact”11 letters
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