Definition of Approximate
Approximate
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
To come near to; to approach.
To draw; to approach.
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Approximate Quotations
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
John Tukey
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
Jack Henry Abbott
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
Max Bill
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
John Tuley
Approximate Translations
approximate in Dutch is benaderen
approximate in Norwegian is omtrentlig
approximate in Portuguese is aproxime
approximate in Spanish is aproximado
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