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approximately::adverb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | about, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
lasted approximately an hour.
Examples of approximately
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He is approximately 12 inches tall, has red hot eyes and chocolate chip buttons.
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Embree got a base salary worth approximately $1 million a season for five years.
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John Thomas stated that he struck the victim approximately 10 times in the head.
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Approximately 1,100 ducks present, mostly mallards, along with 500 Canada geese.
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Now, Daniel said, approximately 40 go to each meeting, even on weekdays at noon.
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It provides health care to approximately 164,000 patients in a 16-county region.
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Cook until the sauce starts to thicken, approximately 5 minutes, stirring often.
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The building was situated approximately on the same spot as the previous school.
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Approximately 5,600 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease each year.
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- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 ...
- An approximation is an inexact representation of something that is still close enough to be useful. Although approximation is most often applied to numbers, it is also frequently applied to such things as mathematical functions, shapes, and physical laws.
- Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount
- A tilde before a number used to mean "approximately". Example: "Jesus was born ~100 years ago."
- Normal distributions occur in many situations, as a result of the central limit theorem. When there is reason to suspect the presence of a large number of small effects acting additively and independently, it is reasonable to assume that observations will be normal. ...
