Both Uses of
approximate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically…†
Chpt 17
- An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar