verb
- Be close or similar.
- usage: "Her results approximate my own"
- synonyms: come close
- Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time. )
- usage: "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
adjective
- Not quite exact or correct.
- usage: "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate"
- synonyms: approximative, rough
- Very close in resemblance.
- usage: "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness"
- synonyms: near
- Located close together.
- usage: "with heads close together"; "approximate leaves grow together but are not united"
- synonyms: close together
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