approximation

approximation
Synonyms and related words:
access, accession, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, advance, advent, affairs, affiliation, affinity, afflux, affluxion, agreement, alikeness, alliance, allowance, analogy, aping, appraisal, appraisement, approach, approaching, appropinquation, appulse, assemblage, assessment, assimilation, assize, assizement, association, bond, calculation, closeness, combination, coming, coming near, coming toward, community, comparability, comparison, computation, confines, conformity, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, copying, correction, correspondence, dealings, deduction, determination, deviation, differentiation, disjunction, division, environs, equation, estimate, estimation, evaluation, evolution, extrapolation, filiation, flowing toward, foreground, forthcoming, gauging, homology, identity, imitation, immediacy, immediate foreground, imminence, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, incorrectness, inexactitude, inexactness, instrumentation, integration, intercourse, interpolation, intimacy, inversion, involution, junction, laxity, liaison, likeness, likening, link, linkage, linking, looseness, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metaphor, metric system, mimicking, multiplication, mutual attraction, nearing, nearness, negligence, neighborhood, nighness, notation, oncoming, parallelism, parity, practice, precinct, predictable error, probable error, propinquity, proportion, proximation, proximity, purlieus, quantification, quantization, rapport, rating, reduction, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, standard deviation, subtraction, survey, surveying, sympathy, telemetering, telemetry, tie, tie-in, tolerance, transformation, triangulation, uncorrectness, unfactualness, union, unpreciseness, unrigorousness, valuation, vicinage, vicinity

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  • approximation — [ aprɔksimasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1314 chir.; lat. médiév. approximatio, du bas lat. approximare « approcher » 1 ♦ (1740) Math. Calcul par lequel on approche d une grandeur réelle; détermination approchée. Méthodes par approximations dans le calcul d une …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Approximation — (lat.: proximus, „der Nächste“) ist zunächst ein Synonym für Näherung; der Begriff wird in der Mathematik allerdings noch präzisiert. Es gibt vor allem zwei Gründe in der Mathematik, Näherungen zu untersuchen: Einmal könnte das Objekt des… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • approximation — ap‧prox‧i‧ma‧tion [əˌprɒksˈmeɪʆn ǁ əˌprɑːk ] noun [countable] 1. a number, amount etc that is not exact, but is intended to give an idea of the real number, amount etc: • The figures are meant to be an approximation of the costs. 2. something… …   Financial and business terms

  • Approximation — Ap*prox i*ma tion n. [Cf. F. approximation, LL. approximatio.] 1. The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. [1913 Webster] The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • approximation — APPROXIMATION. s. f. Terme de Mathématique. Opération par laquelle on approche toujours de plus en plus de la valeur d une quantité cherchée, sans la trouver exactement. Résoudre un problème par approximation. On dit: Un calcul par approximation …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • Approximation — (lat.), Annäherung (s. d.); approximativ, annähernd …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Approximation — (lat.), Annäherung, bei mathem. Rechnungen die Auffindung von Werten, welche dem wahren Wert einer Größe sehr nahe kommen; approximándo, annähernd, annäherungsweise, nach und nach; approximatīv, annähernd, ungefähr; der Wahrheit nahe kommend;… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • approximation — I noun approach, calculation, computation, contiguity, correspondence, estimate, estimation, inexactitude, inexactness, interpolation, likeness, measure, nearness, neighborhood, parity, propinquity, proximity, reckoning, resemblance, rough… …   Law dictionary

  • approximation — (n.) early 15c., act of coming near or close, noun of action from APPROXIMATE (Cf. approximate) (v.). Meaning result of approximating is from 1650s …   Etymology dictionary

  • approximation — [ə präk΄sə mā′shən] n. 1. the act or state of approximating, or coming close 2. an estimate, guess, or mathematical result that is approximately correct or close enough to exactness for a particular purpose …   English World dictionary

  • Approximation — Une approximation est une représentation imprécise ayant toutefois un lien étroit avec la quantité ou l’objet qu’elle reflète : approximation d’un nombre (de Pi par 3.14, de la vitesse instantanée d’un véhicule par sa vitesse moyenne entre… …   Wikipédia en Français

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