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
On the one hand, it is a record of the exact determination and approximative analysis of the electric phenomena presented by living beings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
If anything in this world can give you an approximative idea of this exquisitely perfumed movement, it is the dance for the piccolos in the Almée of Felicien David.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
Facts, when he goes on to verify his theories, will leave him with a very few primary actions of law, a very faint approximative theory; because his theories, in plain English, will not work.
From Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
In 1817 a new enumeration was substituted for the approximative estimates attempted in 1811.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
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