approximative

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The volcano, so far as I know, has never been ascended, and its reported height, 16,500 feet, is probably the approximative estimate of some Russian officer.

From Tent Life in Siberia by Kennan, George

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)

Except with regard to Spain and the United States, most of the existing commercial statistics of Cuba, prior to 1899, are fragmentary and merely approximative.

From Cuba, Old and New by Robinson, Albert G. (Albert Gardner)

Answer:—No; they do not deny its general propositions, nor the approximative truths of the scientific hypotheses.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

There may therefore be room for debate as to the more or less approximative character of our concepts of the absolute.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various