- 1(phonetics) a speech sound made by bringing the parts of the mouth that produce speech close together but not actually touching, for example/r/ and/w/ in right and wet in many accents of English
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- 2(mathematics) a solution that is close to but not exactly the solution of a problem
Check pronunciation: approximant