Both Uses of
approximate
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of 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 constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent co†
Chpt 17approximated = estimated (almost, but not exactly)
- An approximate erection: a solicitous adversion: a gradual elevation: a tentative revelation: a silent contemplation.†
Chpt 17 *approximate = almost, but not exact
Definition:
almost, but not exact; or similar