approximative

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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 A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn

Rosamond became serious too, and slightly meditative; in fact, she was going through many intricacies of lace-edging and hosiery and petticoat-tucking, in order to give an answer that would at least be approximative.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George

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 The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

Instances of the alternation, either total or approximative, of these principles are many and familiar.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

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