Similar words: approximate, approximately, approbation, appropriation, disapprobation, proximity, acclimatization, animation. Meaning: [ə‚prɒksɪ'meɪʃn] 
n. 1. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth 2. the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity) 3. an imprecise or incomplete account 4. the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue.
n. 1. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth 2. the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity) 3. an imprecise or incomplete account 4. the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue. 
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1. That is a fair approximation of the way in which the next boss is being chosen.
2. Could you give us a rough approximation of the likely cost?
3. This is the nearest approximation of cost that they can give us.
4. That's just an approximation, you understand.
5. 3000 students each year would be an approximation.
6. It was the nearest approximation to a crisis she'd ever experienced.
7. Clearly that's an approximation, but my guess is there'll be a reasonable balance.
8. Our results should be a good approximation to the true state of affairs.
9. He had coarsened his voice to an approximation of Cockney.
10. This is only a crude approximation of the actual conditions in the area.
11. An approximation of the numbers expected to attend would be 350.
12. Could you give me a rough approximation of how many people will be coming?
13. Duration is a linear approximation to the present-value profile.
14. Because Aristotelian is a good approximation.
15. The restaurant serves a close approximation of French cuisine.
16. Even at best this is a rather crude approximation.
17. The nearest approximation of this impossible counter-colonialist dream that we have is disco.
18. It is only an approximation of the swing eighth notes.
19. We suppose that the Boussinesq approximation may be made and so the discussion of dynamical and thermal similarity in Section 14.5 applies.
20. This could be seen as an approximation to a Ramsey-optimal price structure, though the analogy is probably rather forced.
21. You only need to type in a close approximation of the word and leave it to the spell-checker to sort out.
22. But as a very rough approximation, avoiding pain and courting pleasure is indeed the way we act.
23. This recipe is a good approximation and a whole lot easier to accomplish.
24. We don't know the exact figures, but about 10,000 might be a close approximation .
24. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
25. The Wisconsin experiment proved one could cobble together a fair approximation of a prairie.
26. Furthermore, science proceeds as if each successive theory is true, or an approximation to the truth.
27. Assuming the number of buckets is large, the Poisson distribution can once more be used as an approximation to the binomial distribution.
28. This is acceptable only if it can be demonstrated that the method gives a reasonable approximation of the actual cost.
29. For the deeper shades of blue in the sea I mixed ultramarine with anthracite black to give an approximation to Paynes grey.
30. Some of the errors introduced will cancel one another out and the answer we get will still be a reasonable approximation.
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