approximately
Pronunciations (4)
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/əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li
Pronunciation notes
- US
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əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Adverb
Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
Usage- not-comparable
- Related words
- Examples
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approximately 60 beats per minute
In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.
More examples (2)
Per 100 g of chocolate there is approximately 11.6 g of saturated fat.
Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.
Adverb
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- Examples
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lasted approximately an hour
in just about a minute
More examples (8)
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
Word forms
approx.