• approx.(abbreviation, also for adjectiveapproximate)

Fromapproximate +‎-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 (notcomparable)

1. Imprecise but close to inquantity oramount.

   Synonyms:around,near,nearly;see alsoThesaurus:approximately

   Antonyms:accurately,definitely,exactly,precisely

   approximately 60 beats per minute

   In every box of matches there areapproximately 40 matchsticks.

   Per 100 g of chocolate there isapproximately 11.6 g of saturated fat.

   • 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, inErkenntnis, volume68, 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 beapproximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.

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