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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Approximately \Ap*prox"i*mate*ly\, adv.
     With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  approximately
       adv : (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;
             "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a
             minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all
             I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty
             people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds";
             "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20
             or so people were at the party" [syn: {about}, {close
             to}, {just about}, {some}, {roughly}, {more or less}, {around},
              {or so}]

From eng-fra [engfra]:

  approximately
  	[əprɔksimətiːliː]
  	à peu près, aux bords de, environ
  
  

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