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Meaning of approximately | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR B2 Standard
əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li

Definitions

Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“approximately 60 beats per minute”
“In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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