Definitions for approximately
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or soadverb

   (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

   "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. approximatelyadverb

   Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. approximately

   An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else.

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1. approximately

   Approximately refers to an estimated or nearly exact value, amount or quantity, which is not precise or exact but is close enough to the expected or actual value. It is often used when the exactness is not important or the exact figure is not known.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. Approximatelyadverb

   with approximation; so as to approximate; nearly

Editors ContributionRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. approximatelyadverb

   Accurately to the description, amount, quantity or number relating to data, design, proof or fact.

   The quantity surveyor said the quotation can take approximately a specific amount of cement

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 2, 2017  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'approximately' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3483

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'approximately' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3624

3. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'approximately' in Adverbs Frequency: #252

How to pronounce approximately?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say approximately in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of approximately in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of approximately in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of approximately in a Sentence

1. Professor Richard Sanders:

   If we can get the density of this instrument just right, it will sit neither sinking nor floating. Now that's easy to say but it's actually a considerable challenge to do... They weigh about 100 kilograms and we need to ballast them to approximately better than one gram. So that's a considerable challenge. The way that we do that is by putting them in tanks of water... and adding weights until they're just sinking; at which point we know they have the same density as the water that they're sitting in.

2. Robert Fisher:

   It's not going to happen anytime soon because approximately one out of three Amazon packages is still delivered by the Postal Service, and it will be skewed towards the places where it's more expensive for them to do it themselves.

3. Northern Command:

   On April 13, 2019, at approximately 2 p.m. CDT, five to six Mexican military personnel questioned two U.S. Army soldiers who were conducting border support operations in an unmarked( Customs and Border Protection) vehicle near the southwest border in the vicinity of Clint, Texas, the US soldiers were appropriately in US territory.

4. Bob Balaram:

   We will go through a number of days of commissioning– approximately a week – where we test our sensors, we test our solo mechanism, we test the motors to make sure they spin right. And, we will be very methodical and event-driven as this engineering experiment unfolds, and then, we will be at a point where we will undertake our first flight and then we will progressively undertake more flights once we understand and analyze all the behavior from that first flight.

5. Jason Boyd:

   On account of mail delays and other factors, many of these children have been left with approximately three weeks to submit applications with potentially life and death consequences.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=approximately
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Approximately
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximately
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/approximately