approximative

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The reader can therefore procure from the statistics of these periods only an approximative idea of the values of crops and the wealth created by their passing into trade.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various

But a very probable approximative one can be arrived at, thanks to a clue supplied by the same Nabonidus, last King of Babylon, who settled the Sargon question for us so unexpectedly.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

From this point of view the knowledge of matter that our perception on one hand and science on the other give to us appears, no doubt, as approximative, but not as relative.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

The riddle of the universe, like less important riddles, is unravelled only by approximative trials, and the most brilliant discoverers have usually been the bravest guessers.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John

It is evident that these calculations are only approximative, but they can also be proved in another way.

From The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz