Meaning of approximately | Babel Free
əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.liDefinitions
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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