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nounan approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
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nounthe act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
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"newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events"nounan imprecise or incomplete accounttype of:
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nounthe quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)type of:
Definition that contains approximation
- approach a close approximation
- relaxation a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount
- assembly language a low-level programing language; close approximation to machine language
- poisson distribution a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large
- relaxation method a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount