"he approximates" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means that the person is making an estimate or a rough guess at something rather than stating an exact figure or amount. Example: "John couldn't remember the exact number, but he approximated that there were around 100 people at the party last night."
Freed of the imperative to stoke the anger of millions of people, he approximates a normally functioning and quite intelligent man.
He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow a semi-pejorative term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.
He approximates the New York accent, though he's from Johnston, R.I. "Representing" as Italian-American (a more theatrical operation than merely "identifying" as something) requires attention to dialect.
He approximates what some undergraduates call a straight arrow — a semi-pejorative term for unfortunates who have no talent for vice.
How he approximates its sonic landscape onstage at the Village Vanguard, with the drummer Henry Cole, the pianist Luis Perdomo, and the bassist Hans Glawischnig, will be fascinating to hear.
In "Silent Movie," he approximates a two-hanky one-reeler about an immigrant family's travails and triumph, aided by C. B. Mordan's exceptional black-and-white ink-on-clayboard panel illustrations, which fit somewhere between woodcuts and a comic book.
According to Miller, Lewis thought Williams "godlike," and Eliot thought he approximated a saint, but Tolkien, though he liked Williams well enough as a person, thought his literary influence was baleful.
He approximated this area by rectangles and said that if the sum of the areas of the rectangles tends to a limit as their number increases indefinitely and if this limiting value is the same however the rectangles are obtained, then the function is integrable.
And with the repetition of each piece during the recording process, he approximated the listener's experience of music in the age of recordings, which was that of hearing the same piece over and over again, becoming intimate with it through mechanized repetition.
In his work, he approximated π as 10. 15 BC.
In 1946, he approximated π to 620 decimal places, and in January 1947 to 710 decimal places.
