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/ɐpɹˌɒksɪmˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /əˌpɹɑksəˈmeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /əˌpɹɑksəˈmeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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an imprecise or incomplete account
newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events - the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
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an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
an estimate of what it would cost
a rough idea how long it would take - the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
How To Use approximation In A Sentence
- Shaping provides a way to reinforce approximations of the final desired behavior or result of behavior.
- He pulls out the original drum track, throws in a turgid approximation of the live drums with a drum machine and a stiff boom-kick, adds some bloops, bleeps, and squiggles (because, hey, it's a remix), and cashes his paycheck.
- The recent calculations reviewed in the article go beyond the valence approximation and attempt to improve the approach to continuum by a logarithmic factor relative to previous simulations.
- As a first approximation, then, moral anti-realism can be identified as the disjunction of three theses: moral noncognivitism moral error theory moral subjectivism Moral Anti-Realism
- It is only an approximation of the swing eighth notes.
- We don't know the exact figures, but about 10,000 might be a close approximation .
- Detail time: above time to do according to your comments, all training time approximation need two hours, I'll inform that before the training.
- As with the others, it was complicated by numerous irregularities, approximations, and ornate embellishments in the park.
- Omar Khayyam, known chiefly in Europe as a poet, combined trigonometry and approximation theory to solve algebraic equations using geometry.
- To compare behavioral responses among regions, we used Kruskal-Wallis tests, which use chisquare approximations.