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approximate

/əˈprɒksɪmət/

US pronunciation
American sound/əˈprɒksɪmət/
əˈprɒksɪmət
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

ə - ˈprɒksɪmət -> approximate

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ခန့်မှန်းခြေ။ (v) နီးစပ်သည်။ မနီးယိုးစွဲလိုက်သည်။ နီးနီးစပ်စပ် ခန့်မှန်းသည်။

Full entry

approximate /ǝ'prɒksÇmǝt/ adj

ခန့်မှန်းခြေ။
an approximate price/ figure/ amount ❍ What is the approximate size of this room?
v
၁။ ~ (to) sth နီးစပ်သည်။ မနီးယိုးစွဲလိုက်သည်။ Your story approximates to the facts we already know. ❍ They had nothing even approximating the items I was looking for.
၂။ နီးနီးစပ်စပ် ခန့်မှန်းသည်။ an attempt to approximate population growth.
❏ approximately adv ခန့်မှန်းခြေအားဖြင့်။ ခန့်။ နီးပါး။ လောက်။ It cost approximately £ 300— I can't remember the exact figure. ❍ 'How much does he earn?' '£ 20000 a year, approximately. '
❏ approximation /ǝ'prɒksÇ'meÇʃn/ n [C]
၁။ နီးစပ်သော ခန့်မှန်းချက်။ မှန်းခြေ။ 3000 students each year would be an approximation of the expected number.
၂။ မနီးယိုးစွဲတူသောအရာ။ ယောင်ယောင်မျှ ဖြစ်သော (အပြုံး စသည်)။ a reasonably good approximation of the original style ❍ an approximation of a smile.

More examples
  • The approximate cost of repairs/time of death
  • I can give you an approximate idea of where she lives.
Synonyms
estimated, fairly accurate, rough, near, ballpark, inexact, adjacent, alike, all but, almost, almost accurate, analogous, appraise, approach, as good as, assess, be similar to, border on, bordering, close, close to, close together, come close, come close to, come near, come near to, comparable, comparative, contiguous, estimate, exact, guess, guessed, guesstimate, imperfect, imprecise, in the neighborhood of, like, loose, matching, move toward, nearby, neighboring, proximate, reach, reckon, relative, resemble, resembling, round, similar, surmised, touch, uncertain, unprecise, unscientific, value, verge on, verging on
Antonyms
accurate, away, calculate, clear, definite, depart, different, dissimilar, exact, far, leave, precise, same
Cross references
estimatedfairly accurateroughnearballparkinexactadjacentalikeall butalmostalmost accurateanalogousappraiseapproachas good asassessbe similar toborder onborderingcloseclose toclose togethercome closecome close tocome nearcome near tocomparablecomparative
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