approximative
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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 Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna) Ragozin
One hundred and eighty to three hundred feet per second is the rate of movement assigned for sensation, but all such results must be very vaguely approximative.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
To man is denied supreme unity, but here he finds approximative unity.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Instances of the alternation, either total or approximative, of these principles are many and familiar.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
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