Noun
The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.
An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.
A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; as, to solve an equation by approximation.
A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. Bertrand Russell
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty. Andrei Tarkovsky
To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power.” (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: "That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being. Martin Heidegger
Donald Trump shit his fucking pants at the fucking moment of truth and shit all over everybody. That's my first approximation. I'm not in a fucking cult for Donald Trump. Fuck him. Fuck his family. Fuck all these people. Alex Jones
Like all great minds that do not merely imagine Utopias, but actually advance humanity to a new epoch, he [Jesus] took the situation and material furnished to him by the past and molded that into a fuller approximation to the divine conception within him. Walter Rauschenbusch
What troubles me is that we will see in Germany no approximation of the East German income to the West German income anymore, because productivity stays so far behind. Helmut Schmidt