approximation
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English
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English approximation
From approximate + -ion .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
- (General American , dialects of Canada) IPA (key): /əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɑk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
- (Canada , dialects of the US) IPA (key): /əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɒk.sɪˈmeɪ.ʃn̩]
- (Australia ) IPA (key): /əˌpɹɔk.sɪˈmæɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɔk.sɪˈmæɪ.ʃn̩]
- (New Zealand ) IPA (key): /əˌpɹɒk.səˈmæɪ.ʃən/, [əˌpɹɔ̟k.səˈmæɪ.ʃn̩]
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
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
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]act of approximating
- Armenian: մոտարկում (hy) (motarkum)
- Bulgarian: приближение (približenie)
- Danish: tilnærmelse c
- Dutch: benaderen (nl) , schatten (nl)
- Finnish: lähestyminen (fi) ; arvioiminen (fi) , approksimointi
- French: rapprochement (fr) m
- Galician: aproximación (gl) f
- German: Approximieren n
- Greek: προσέγγιση (el) f (proséngisi)
- Hebrew: קֵרוּב (he) m (qerúv)
- Hungarian: közeledés (hu) , közelítés (hu) , megközelítés (hu) , harmonizáció (hu)
- Icelandic: nálgun (is) f
- Indonesian: aproksimasi , penghampiran , pendekatan (id)
- Italian: approssimazione (it) f
- Kazakh: жуықтау (juwıqtaw)
- Malay: penganggaran , penghampiran
- Malayalam: ഏകദേശം (ml) (ēkadēśaṁ)
- Māori: whakaāwhiwhiwhitanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilnærmelse m, tilnærming (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: tilnærming f
- Polish: aproksymacja (pl) f, przybliżanie n
- Portuguese: aproximação (pt) f
- Romanian: aproximare (ro) , aproximație (ro) f
- Russian: приближе́ние (ru) n (približénije)
- Spanish: aproximación (es) f
- Tagalog: aproksimasyon
imprecise solution
- Arabic: تَقْرِيب m (taqrīb)
- Armenian: մոտավորություն (hy) (motavorutʻyun)
- Bulgarian: приближение (približenie)
- Czech: přiblížení n
- Dutch: benadering (nl) , schatting (nl)
- Finnish: approksimaatio (fi) , likiarvo (fi)
- French: approximation (fr) f
- German: Approximation f
- Greek: εκτίμηση (el) f (ektímisi)
- Hungarian: közelítés (hu) , közelítő becslés
- Icelandic: nálgun (is) f
- Italian: approssimazione (it) f
- Māori: whakaawhiwhitanga
- Polish: aproksymacja (pl) f, przybliżenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: aproximação (pt) f
- Russian: приближе́ние (ru) n (približénije), аппроксима́ция (ru) f (approksimácija)
- Spanish: aproximación (es) f
- Swedish: närmevärde (sv) n, approximation (sv) c, skattning (sv) c
- Tagalog: dapit
act of bringing together tissues to be sutured
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: aproksymacja (pl) f
See also
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- approximation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Learned borrowing from Latin approximātiō .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]approximation f (plural approximations )
- approximation; an imprecise solution
Related terms
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- "approximation", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h2éd
- English terms suffixed with -ion
- English 5-syllable words
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- French learned borrowings from Latin
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