approximately

English

Alternative forms

• approx. (abbreviation, also for adjective approximate)

Etymology

From approximate +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət.li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət.li/
• Hyphenation: ap‧prox‧i‧mate‧ly

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Adverb

approximately (not comparable)

1. Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

   Synonyms: around, near, nearly; see also Thesaurus:approximately

   Antonyms: accurately, definitely, exactly, precisely

   approximately 60 beats per minute

   In every box of matches there are approximately 40 matchsticks.

   Per 100 g of chocolate there is approximately 11.6 g of saturated fat.

   • 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:

     Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.

Related terms

• approximate

Translations

imprecise but close to in quantity or amount

• Albanian: afërsisht (sq), përafërsisht (sq), afro (sq)
• Arabic: حَوَالَيْ (ḥawālay), تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban)

  Egyptian Arabic: تقْريباً (taʔrīban), حوالي (ḥawālī)

  Moroccan Arabic: جوايه (jwāyih)

  North Levantine Arabic: تقْريباً (taʔríban)

  South Levantine Arabic: تقْريباً (taʔríban), حوالي (ḥawālī)

• Armenian: մոտավորապես (hy) (motavorapes)
• Azerbaijani: təxmini
• Belarusian: прыблі́зна (pryblízna), прыкла́дна (prykládna), ама́ль (amálʹ) (almost)
• Bulgarian: приблизи́телно (bg) (priblizítelno), почти́ (bg) (počtí), о́коло (bg) (ókolo)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: aproximadament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大概 (daai⁶ koi³, daai⁶ koi^3-2)

  Mandarin: 大約／大约 (zh) (dàyuē), 左右 (zh) (zuǒyòu), 將近／将近 (zh) (jiāngjìn), 大致 (zh) (dàzhì), 或多或少 (zh) (huòduōhuòshǎo), 大概 (zh) (dàgài)

• Czech: přibližně (cs), zhruba (cs)
• Danish: omtrent, tilnærmelsesvis
• Dutch: ongeveer (nl), ruwweg (nl), grofweg (nl), pak hem beet
• Esperanto: proksimume
• Estonian: umbkaudu, umbes, ligi (et)
• Faroese: umleið
• Finnish: arviolta (fi), noin (fi), suurinpiirtein, suunnilleen (fi), palttiarallaa (fi), osapuilleen (fi)
• French: plus ou moins (fr), à peu près (fr), approximativement (fr), presque (fr), quasiment (fr), environ (fr), en gros (fr) (colloquial), à la louche (fr) (colloquial)
• Galician: aproximadamente (gl), máis ou menos
• Georgian: დაახლოებით (daaxloebit)
• German: ungefähr (de), etwa (de), mehr oder weniger
• Greek: περίπου (el) (perípou)
• Hebrew: בְּעֵרֶךְ (be'érekh), בְּקֵרוּב (be'kiruv)
• Hindi: लगभग (hi) (lagbhag)
• Hungarian: megközelítőleg (hu), körülbelül (hu), kb. (hu), durván (hu), nagyjából (hu), mintegy (hu), hozzávetőleg (hu)
• Hunsrik: sticker
• Ido: proxime (io)
• Indonesian: kira-kira (id), kurang lebih (id)
• Italian: approssimativamente (it), approssimatamente (it), circa (it)
• Japanese: およそ (ja) (oyoso), 約 (ja) (やく, yaku), 大略 (ja) (たいりゃく, tairyaku)
• Kazakh: шамасында (şamasynda), шамалап (şamalap), шамамен (şamamen)
• Khmer: ប្រមាណ (km) (prɑmaan), ប្រហែល (km) (prɑhael)
• Korean: 대략(大略) (ko) (daeryak), 약(約) (ko) (yak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نزیکەی (nzîkey)

• Kyrgyz: чамасында (ky) (camasında), чамалап (camalap)
• Lao: ປະມານ (pa mān)
• Latin: circiter, plus minus, P.M., fere (la)
• Latvian: apmēram
• Lithuanian: maždaug
• Macedonian: приближно (približno), околу (okolu)
• Malayalam: ഏകദേശം (ml) (ēkadēśaṁ)
• Maori: āhua (mi) (placed before the number it modifies)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: иктаж (iktaž)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ойролцоогоор (ojrolcoogoor), барагцаалбал (baragcaalbal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omtrent (no), bortimot

  Nynorsk: bortimot

• Old English: hūhwega
• Persian: تقریباً (fa) (taqriban)
• Plautdietsch: onjefäa
• Polish: około (pl), mniej więcej (pl), z grubsza (pl), jako tako
• Portuguese: aproximadamente (pt)
• Romanian: aproximativ (ro)
• Russian: приблизи́тельно (ru) (priblizítelʹno), приме́рно (ru) (primérno), о́коло (ru) (ókolo), гру́бо (ru) (grúbo), ориентиро́вочно (ru) (orijentiróvočno), почти́ (ru) (počtí) (almost)
• Scottish Gaelic: mu chuairt air
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при́ближно

  Roman: príbližno (sh)

• Slovak: približne
• Slovene: približno
• Spanish: aproximadamente (es), más o menos (es), grosso modo (es), plus minusve
• Swedish: ungefär (sv), cirka (sv), uppskattningsvis (sv)
• Tajik: тақрибан (taqriban)
• Tamil: கிட்டத்தட்ட (ta) (kiṭṭattaṭṭa), தோராயமாக (ta) (tōrāyamāka)
• Tatar: якынча (yakınça)
• Telugu: సుమారుగా (te) (sumārugā)
• Thai: ประมาณ (th) (bprà-maan)
• Turkish: yaklaşık (tr)
• Turkmen: barabar (tk)
• Ukrainian: прибли́зно (pryblýzno), ма́йже (uk) (májže) (almost), зо (zo)
• Urdu: لگ بھگ (ur) (lag bhag)
• Uzbek: taxminan (uz)
• Vietnamese: khoảng (vi), chừng (vi) (澄)
• Yiddish: אַן ערך (an erekh), אומגעפֿער (umgefer)

See also

• circa