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Princeton's WordNet

  1. approach, approachingnoun

    the event of one object coming closer to another

  2. approach, approaching, comingnoun

    the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

    "the approach of winter"

  3. approach, approaching, comingadjective

    the act of drawing spatially closer to something

    "the hunter's approach scattered the geese"

  4. approaching, coming(a), forthcoming, upcomingadjective

    of the relatively near future

    "the approaching election"; "this coming Thursday"; "the forthcoming holidays"; "the upcoming spring fashions"

Wiktionary

  1. approachingadverb

    Nearly.

  2. approachingadjective

    That approaches or approach.

    the approaching armies

Wikipedia

  1. Approaching

    Approaching is the fourth live album by contemporary classical chamber orchestra Symphony Number One. The album was released on November 3, 2017 and features the music of Nicholas Bentz, Martha Horst, and Hangrui Zhang. The majority of the disk is taken up by Nicholas Bentz’s work Approaching Eternity.

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  1. approaching

    Approaching refers to the act of moving closer or nearer to something or someone in terms of physical distance, time, or quality. It can also imply going towards or confronting a certain situation or subject in a particular manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Approaching

    of Approach

  2. Approachingnoun

    the act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of APPROACHING in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of APPROACHING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of APPROACHING in a Sentence

  1. John Leahy:

    If you look at what is being produced now it is approaching 50 percent on A321, i have already gone back to our programme people and said we need the capability of going to 60 percent.

  2. Hanley Jr.:

    They range from $ 75 billion a year to $ 500 billion a year. So really, we are talking about potentially a case that, the value of which is approaching a trillion dollars, although no one expects that these companies would have the kind of money to fund that size of a settlement.

  3. Randy Sterett:

    There's been the SWAT operation going on and a UAV [drone] driving—flying—right into the front yard and watching as they're approaching the house, putting their safety and the safety of those who are in the community at risk.

  4. Bill Bunting:

    We are concerned about strong tornadoes and widespread damaging winds, we’ve been trying to stress, don’t wait until you see visual cues of the storm approaching, take action when warnings are issued.

  5. Shana Chappell:

    They have that brothers' bond, as the one year( anniversary) was approaching, I didn't realize that Dakota Halverson hadn't really accepted that Kareem was gone. I just took it as we're all hurting because we all are. I didn't know Dakota Halverson was going to do that.

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