approximation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From approximate + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˌpɹɔk.sɪˈmæɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɔk.sɪˈmæɪ.ʃn̩]
Noun
[edit]approximation (countable and uncountable, plural approximations)
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 5:
- At the back of the cupboard, you find your interview skirt, the one you bought when you had cash to purchase an approximation of the fashion spreads you mulled over in magazines.
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- Synonym: coaptation
- Coordinate term: imbrication
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
- Hyponym: (misplaced attempt at approximation) hyperforeignism
- For some loanwords borrowed from French into English, the standard English pronunciation is an approximation of the French, as with denoument.
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of approximating
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imprecise solution
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act of bringing together tissues to be sutured
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]approximation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin approximātiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]approximation f (plural approximations)
- approximation; an imprecise solution
Further reading
[edit]- “approximation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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