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Synonyms for approximation

guess

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Synonyms for approximation

a rough or tentative calculation

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Synonyms for approximation

the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)

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an imprecise or incomplete account

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the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue

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In addition to the regular PFC payments, Congress has authorized Market Loss payments for the last four years, which are approximately equal to PFC payments.
But when an ash particle's Stokes number is approximately equal to 1, the grain is flung to the outside edges of the cloud's swirling eddies, where it's much more likely to bump into another ash particle.
Hardness is shown in International Rubber Hardness degrees (IRHD) and these are approximately equal to Shore A hardness units.
* She forgave $20,000 of the purchase price when she sold the property (a tax-free gift), taking back a mortgage of $250,000 * She forgave an additional $20,000 of the mortgage in each of the two years before her death * She paid a monthly rent of $1,800, which coincidentally was approximately equal to the amount paid to her as interest on the mortgage.
355 spin-off for an S corporation in the following situation: The division/activity that the shareholders want in a separate entity is relatively new (i.e., the related machinery and equipment have a basis approximately equal to its fair market value (FMV)), and the S corporation has adequate accumulated adjustments account (AAA) to distribute the "value" of the division/activity targeted to be separated.
PPP has signed up 27 major resin producers - more than any other group - with pledges of something like $50 million a year (still to be settled) in "new money," approximately equal to the combined budgets of all the other major plastics environmental organizations.
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