Noun : Ninety-three million miles is an approximation of the distance of the earth from the sun.    From Dictionary.com. 

The answer is simple: Newton's reasoning is approximative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica] Reference

(The amounts are approximative and come from public figures.).    From Wordnik.com.  [American Wine Blog Awards 2008: Vote for Your Favorites] Reference

I also admit that my culture in the field of LES is at best approximative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference

Instances of the alternation, either total or approximative, of these principles are many and familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference

It is evident that these calculations are only approximative, but they can also be proved in another way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

A failure to notice these quam proxime forms in Book 1 blinds one to the subtlety of the approximative reasoning Newton employs in Book 3. 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica] Reference

But as most of the equations in our calculation are approximative, I prefer that the element of gravitation should be handled in a general way.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Discovery] Reference

These figures must be considered as only approximative, since nothing is more difficult than to estimate the nutritive qualities of different aliments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

This process is but approximative, and some practice is necessary before the operator succeeds in getting uniform results from the same series of specimens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

I don't, for instance, think treating 'is more valuable than' as a qualitative relation requires treating it as an approximative quantitative relation, as Smith claims it does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atheism and Nihilism] Reference

The tune sounded consistent, but the lyrics a little approximative in places (including a reference to ketchup which I strongly suspected had no business being there whatsoever).    From Wordnik.com.  [poupée de cire] Reference

And we also are without the means for any, not to say accurate, but fair approximative estimate of the proportion of this expenditure which may be incurred for, and duly chargeable against the colonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

To man is denied supreme unity, but here he finds approximative unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference

In 1817 a new enumeration was substituted for the approximative estimates attempted in 1811.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference

SELF-ESTEEM (the 12th of Spurzheim, 8th of Gall) is well located and described with approximative correctness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9] Reference

Moral or extrapatrimonial damage is often difficult to put a figure on in an exact or even approximative manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProLifeBlogs] Reference

By the following signs, however, an approximative notion of the value in use of the resources of a nation may be obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

Fleurieu, is 1100 toises; to Ferrer, 1238 toises; and to Tofino, 1260 toises: but these measures are only approximative estimates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Merrill Eradicate, JP Morgan Go next, further still others approximative instanter Goldman Sachs, ABN Amro, Morgan Stanley, and and whence on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters Finance] Reference

The finest effort to reanimate the past is of course only approximative — is always more or less an infusion of the modern spirit into the ancient form —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference

But individual communities are not therefore warranted in being content with proceeding to bear a testimony for it on a principle of approximative expediency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ordinance of Covenanting] Reference

Please consider this presentation approximative since it is both a proposal and a map of future work which will become clear only when we actually do the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dashboard RSS Feed] Reference

Except with regard to Spain and the United States, most of the existing commercial statistics of Cuba, prior to 1899, are fragmentary and merely approximative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba, Old and New] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference

Solomon claims that the maximum relative error from using this approximative approach does not exceed 2\%, which might be adequate for many practical applications.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Cross of Berny] Reference

In the genus fdncus, in that approximative genus which I have termed fcincoidus, in the tupinambo, and the gecko kind, Paramatta afforded me many remarkable fpe - cies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference

As to the amount required to support the Institution for the next two years -- it must needs be but approximative; for no one can anticipate the range of prices in the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863] Reference

Merci de vous annoncer dans les commentaires avec l’heure approximative de votre arrivée!.    From Wordnik.com.  [C’est ce vendredi! — Climb to the Stars] Reference

C.S. Peirce expressed a similar view about the merely approximative character of classical determinism (“The.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME] Reference

Many men had been approximative before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference