approximately

• approx. (abbreviation, also for adjective approximate)

From approximate + -ly.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li/
• Hyphenation: ap‧prox‧i‧mate‧ly

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approximately (not comparable)

1. Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

   Synonyms: around, about, near, nearly; see also Thesaurus:approximately

   Antonyms: accurately, definitely, exactly, precisely

   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.

   • 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:

     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.

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