The reverse of approximation is separation.
What this figure actually describes is a range of approximation.
Once those are known, a layer of approximation is eliminated.
Thermometers, weighing scales and microscopes long ago moved us safely past the marshes of approximation.
Various simple methods of approximation will always yield the same succession of digits in the same order.
But, under our peculiar congeries of political institutions, democracy — or, at least, majority rule — is a matter of approximation.
When n = 6, the error of approximation is less than 0.0002.
Any poem in syllabics which features an 11-syllable line will have this problem of approximation, but Moore did not seem to mind.
But their most evocative memories are also, by their nature, a kind of approximation, which have an emotional, rather than technical, precision.
Mr. Rosenthal's description of sampling error as a "range of approximation" is better than what we generally hear, but not quite on the mark.
I've got to be myself, I can't be inauthentic; I've got to do some sort of approximation of myself – but I haven't squared that circle yet.
