approximative

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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 Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In 1817 a new enumeration was substituted for the approximative estimates attempted in 1811.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von

It is evident that these calculations are only approximative, but they can also be proved in another way.

From The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

But a very probable approximative one can be arrived at, thanks to a clue supplied by the same Nabonidus, last King of Babylon, who settled the Sargon question for us so unexpectedly.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

All that we can do is to approximate to the meaning that he gave to them, remembering that our translation of them into the language of to-day can be approximative only.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)