Part 582

<h1>Approximately</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*prox"i*mate*ly</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With approximation; so as to approximate; nearly.</def>

<h1>Approximation</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*prox`i*ma"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>approximation</ets>, LL. <ets>approximatio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating.</def>

<blockquote>The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an <b>approximation</b> to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An approach to a correct estimate, calculation, or conception, or to a given quantity, quality, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A continual approach or coming nearer to a result; <as>as, to solve an equation by <ex>approximation</ex></as>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A value that is nearly but not exactly correct.</def>

<h1>Approximative</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*prox"i*ma*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>approximatif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Approaching; approximate.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Approximator</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*prox"i*ma`tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, approximates.</def>

<h1>Appui</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap`pui"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>ad + podium</ets> foothold, Gr. <?/, dim. of <?/, <?/, foot.]</ety> <def>A support or supporter; a stay; a prop.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and <b>appuies</b> set to it. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Point d'appui</col> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[F., a point of support.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Appulse</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap"pulse</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>appulsus</ets>, fr. <ets>appellere</ets>, <ets>appulsum</ets>, to drive to; <ets>ad + pellere</ets> to drive: cf. F. <ets>appulse</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.</def>

<blockquote>In all consonants there is an <b>appulse</b> of the organs. <i>Holder.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; <as>as, the <ex>appulse</ex> of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian</as>.</def>

<h1>Appulsion</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*pul"sion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A driving or striking against; an appulse.</def>

<h1>Appulsive</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*pul"sive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Striking against; impinging; <as>as, the <ex>appulsive</ex> influence of the planets</as>.</def>

<i>P. Cyc.</i>

<h1>Appulsively</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*pul"sive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By appulsion.</def>

<h1>Appurtenance</h1> <Xpage=75>

<hw>Ap*pur"te*nance</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>apurtenaunce</ets>, <ets>apartenance</ets>, F. <ets>appartenance</ets>, LL. <ets>appartenentia</ets>, from L. <ets>appertinere</ets>. See <er>Appertain</er>.]</ety> <def>That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land.</def>