approximately
advUS /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/ · UK /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li/
Etymology From approximate + -ly.
1
Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
- approximately 60 beats per minute
- In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.
2 more examples
- 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.2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
- Synonyms
36 terms
-ish, about, all but, almost, approaching, around, by and large, circa, close, close to, essentially, for all practical purposes, fornigh, give or take, imprecisely, just about, kind of, loosely, more or less, nearly, near, nearabout, nigh on, odd, or so, plus or minus, roundly, roughly, say, some, -some, sort of, thereabout, virtually, well-nigh, ±- Antonyms
- exactly
- Related terms
- approximate, circa