All 3 Uses of
approximate
in
Crime and Punishment
- One in ten thousand perhaps—I speak roughly, approximately—is born with some independence, and with still greater independence one in a hundred thousand.†
Chpt 3.5
- He had not, of course, been able to form even an approximate notion of what they meant.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- This morning I changed for my own purposes several five-per-cent securities for the sum of approximately three thousand roubles.†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
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(approximate) almost, but not exact; or similar