1. approximated - Adjective
2. approximated - Verb
of Approximate
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius. Charles Fort
The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated. Masi Oka
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth. Rachel Kushner
Conversely, a charge distribution can be approximated by many small point charges. Source: Internet
As an example, Archimedes approximated π by calculating the perimeters of polygons inscribing and circumscribing a circle, starting with hexagons, and successively doubling the number of sides. Source: Internet
But crystal field theory treats all interactions in a complex as ionic and assumes that the ligands can be approximated by negative point charges. Source: Internet