Definition of "approximating" []

• Present participle of approximate. (verb)

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• "Until the native militia was organised, Russian troops, not exceeding fifty thousand in number, were to occupy the country; this occupation, however, was to be limited to a term approximating to two years."
• "I can't wait for our Justice Department to look into King County's waterboarding, illegal renditions, and deliberate infliction of pain approximating that of organ failure, because we all know how much our federal government has strongly opposed such practices over the last five years."
• "(which is a sound approximating ch in the German word ich), is to be found on page 206, Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology."