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What does approximation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act, process or result of approximating.
  2. (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
  3. (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
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I was on my knees as I said these things, kneeling near the end of my bed with my hands joined in a vague approximation of a person praying.
We can make this reasoning more precise with the Markov chain approximation.
As a first approximation of winter range, I plotted museum specimen records by month on maps of the Western Hemisphere.
As the titles suggest, the two workshops focus on approximation algorithms and randomization.
The electrostatic interaction energies between the different sheets may be recalculated in the dipole approximation from simulation data.
The red ink can also be read as a rough approximation of America's indebtedness to the rest of the world.

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