Approximate

(verb.) be close or similar; 'Her results approximate my own'.

(adj.) located close together; 'with heads close together'; 'approximate leaves grow together but are not united' .

(adj.) very close in resemblance; 'sketched in an approximate likeness'; 'a near likeness' .

(adj.) not quite exact or correct; 'the approximate time was 10 o'clock'; 'a rough guess'; 'a ballpark estimate' .

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• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There was the constant attempt to approximate the conditions of successful assassination that accompanied the demolition. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In a rough way and with many exceptions, democracy compels law to approximate human need. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• These plants represent an approximate investment of $500,000,000, and the connection of not less than 25,000,000 incandescent lamps or their equivalent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• An approximate ohm for rough work in the laboratory may be made by winding 9 feet 5 inches of number 30 copper wire on a spool or arranging it in any other convenient form. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He approximated more closely than the Egyptians the solution of the problem of the relation between the area of a circle and the radius. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Then there are the factories where these incandescent lamps are made, about forty in number, representing a total investment that may be approximated at $25,000,000. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Our speed must have approximated two hundred miles an hour, for Martian fliers are swift, so that at most we were in the shaft not over forty seconds. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The piece of lime glows with an intense brilliancy approximating that of the electric light. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A single volume is of necessity too limited a space for anything approximating a complete record of the vast progress which has been made in American Industry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The more human the purpose, or the more it approximates the ends which appeal in daily experience, the more real the knowledge. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To-day the New York collection amounts to nearly 30,000, while that of the National Bureau of Identification at Chicago approximates 100,000. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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