Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an approximative manner; approximately.
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- adverb In an
approximative manner.
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Examples
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Considering that it was a brand new 150 Euros (so low value compared to the ring) cellphone, worth approximatively 2 months of salary of that person, I was quite surprised when told that they had found my phone.
The Case of the Missing Diamond Ring - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Nature, and of acquiring through his senses concrete images of those properties of things, which are, and always will be, but approximatively expressed in human language.
Essays 2007
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As you see, the ratio is now approximatively 3 to 1 in favor of Chavez for all broadcast access existing.
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Since approximatively 10 hours, Webs. com & my current account, all pages from my website marks “server not found”.
Webs.com Launches Its Own Application Platform And App Store Jason Kincaid 2005
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I have calculated - very approximatively - that, since the date when their methods began to be generally applied, some fifteen or twenty thousand persons must have been saved from death in the
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Because the activity of the carbon atoms decreases at a known rate, it should be possible, by measuring the remaining activity, to determine the time elapsed since death, if this occurred during the period between approximatively 500 and 30,000 years ago.
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Total FSRC Food 24,023,265 lbs. or 600 carloads of approximatively 40,000 lbs. each.
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A QUARTER-PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK P.M. There is an attitude -- approximatively called pensive -- in which the soul of a human being, and especially of a woman, dominates outwardly and expresses its presence so strongly, that the intangible essence seems more apparent than the body itself.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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There was no positive indication of the time at which he lived, except that he could not possibly have lived later than 2000 B.C. Scholars therefore agreed to assign that date to him, approximatively -- a little more or less -- thinking they could not go very far wrong in so doing.
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So far as experience goes, such a thing has no more real existence than a line without breadth; and hence an atomic theory based upon such an assumption may be as true ideally as any of the theorems of Euclid, but it can give only an approximatively true account of the actual universe.
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