| approximate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. approximate, come close | be close or similar.; "Her results approximate my own" |
| ~ resemble | appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to.; "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work" |
| ~ border on, approach | come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character.; "This borders on discrimination!"; "His playing approaches that of Horowitz" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).; "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" |
| ~ calculate, compute, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out | make a mathematical calculation or computation. |
| ~ quantise, quantize | approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values. |
| ~ misgauge | gauge something incorrectly or improperly. |
| ~ put, place, set | estimate.; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." |
| ~ give | estimate the duration or outcome of something.; "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success" |
| ~ lowball, underestimate | make a deliberately low estimate.; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed" |
| ~ assess | estimate the value of (property) for taxation.; "Our house hasn't been assessed in years" |
| ~ make | calculate as being.; "I make the height about 100 feet" |
| ~ reckon, count | take account of.; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" |
| ~ truncate | approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one.; "truncate a series" |
| ~ guesstimate | estimate based on a calculation. |
| adj. | 3. approximate, approximative, rough | not quite exact or correct.; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" |
| ~ inexact | not exact. |
| adj. | 4. approximate, near | very close in resemblance.; "sketched in an approximate likeness"; "a near likeness" |
| ~ close | close in relevance or relationship.; "a close family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close resemblance" |
| adj. | 5. approximate, close together | located close together.; "with heads close together"; "approximate leaves grow together but are not united" |
| ~ close | at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.; "close to noon"; "how close are we to town?"; "a close formation of ships" |
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