approximate
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
Other meanings
Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
“NASA’s Genesis spacecraft has on board an ion monitor to record the speed, density, temperature and approximate composition of the solar wind ions.”
Drawn close together, but not united.
Synonyms
- rough
Word history
From Latin "approximātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “approximate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.