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单词 approximate
释义 ap·prox·i·mate
I. \əˈpräksəmə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V\ adjective
Etymology: Late Latin approximatus, past participle of approximare to come near, from Latin ad- + proximare to come near — more at proximate
1. : nearly resembling
 < doing such approximate justice as we could — W.A.White >
2. : near to correctness or accuracy : nearly exact
 < a sketch map with approximate topography — C.B.Hitchcock >
 < an approximate idea of the agricultural area — J.M.Mogey >
 < at the approximate center of the state >
3. : located very close together
 < leaves that are ovate and approximate >
II. \-ˌmāt, usu -ād.+V\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to bring near or close to : cause to approach : make approximate
  < the closer the performing conditions for Sebastian Bach's concerted music are approximated to those of early eighteenth century provincial Germany — Virgil Thomson >
 b. medicine : to bring together (cut edges of tissue)
2. : to come near to : approach
 < the candidate's memory should closely approximate a hypothetical norm — H.G.Armstrong >
 < nothing approximating a history of American letters was printed — H.M.Jones >
3. : to set by hasty and crude calculation : estimate
 < maybe the map is just approximated when it comes to precise distances — A.R.Marcus >
intransitive verb
: to come close
 < to make the effects of poetry approximate to those of music — Edmund Wilson >
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