Noun: approximant
| Singular | approximant |
| Plural | approximants |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like approximant
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin approximāns. In the phonetics sense first used by Peter Ladefoged, the mathematical concept is attributed to Paul Halmos. See: Latin Nouns '
approximāns'.
Verbs referencing "approximant"
Finnish Nouns
approksimantti, Polish Nouns
aproksymant.