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approximately
/əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/
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What does approximately mean?
adverb
- Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.
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Poland, with its hard currency debt of approximately $40 billion, is severely limited in its ability to import much-needed hard currency goods.
While waiting, however, there came along a farmer in his spring cart, driving approximately in the direction that she wished to pursue.
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The automatic detonator is set in motion and the bomb released to explode approximately at the height to which it is set.
Each branch ended in a little cup, and in the cups five pieces of camphor were placed, all approximately equal in size.
The ship is supported in the air by nineteen gasbags which give a total capacity of approximately two million cubic feet of gas.