approximation

[ UK /ɐpɹˌɒksɪmˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /əˌpɹɑksəˈmeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an imprecise or incomplete account
    newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events
  2. the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
  3. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
    an estimate of what it would cost
    a rough idea how long it would take
  4. the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
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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.
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