Sentence examples for it closely approximates from inspiring English sources

Although this relationship is that of pure water, it closely approximates that of fresh water.

Though this law describes the behaviour of an ideal gas, it closely approximates the behaviour of real gases.

Chris Hoene, director of research and policy for the National League of Cities, an association in Washington said that the property tax problem of some small-business owners was "a story that isn't told often enough, even though it closely approximates the one that we tell about homeowners on fixed incomes who can't afford their property taxes".

We conclude that the ES null-model is the null-model that permits co-occurrence analysis with the highest stringency among the models tested and that it closely approximates occurrence probabilities derived from an ideal permutation model.

The method has been selected because it closely approximates grass ETo at the location evaluated, is physically based, and explicitly incorporates both physiological and aerodynamic parameters.

Reporting costs as 'gross costs' (i.e. ignoring potential cost offsets) is important, because from a policy perspective, it closely approximates the financial budget that will be needed to operate the interventions.

Some electronic toys like Hasbro's My Real Baby, expected to be a hot seller last year because it closely approximated an actual infant, are out of fashion or even off the market.

We then validated the model by demonstrating that it closely approximated several key outcomes for a separate group of patients followed less intensively in the same trial (validation).

It more closely approximates the institution that its founders came out of, and the kinds of behaviors associated with it: not the bathhouse but the frat house, not political liberation but the college campus free-for-all.

It more closely approximates a watery well drink.

"Perhaps philosophy only becomes truly persuasive when it most closely approximates literature," suggests Rowlands, who has already successfully taken his own advice.