Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who approximates or comes near.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, approximates.

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  • noun Something that approximates

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Examples

  • Law ordains universally that neither Man nor Woman shall be approached so closely as to destroy the interval between the approximator and the approximated.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • As I said, one of the best ways of viewing a NN is as a generalized multivariate nonlinear function approximator.

    Willis E on Hansen and Model Reliability « Climate Audit 2006

  • Also reported from Thailand was minor damage to young shoots by an insect identified as Aristobia approximator in plantations (Chittachumnonk 19853).

    Chapter 8 1996

  • The frail form of a Woman, being liable to be shattered by such an approximation, must be preserved by the State; but since Women cannot be distinguished by the sense of sight from Men, the Law ordains universally that neither Man nor Woman shall be approached so closely as to destroy the interval between the approximator and the approximated.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • The frail form of a Woman, being liable to be shattered by such an approximation, must be preserved by the State; but since Women cannot be distinguished by the sense of sight from Men, the Law ordains universally that neither Man nor Woman shall be approached so closely as to destroy the interval between the approximator and the approximated.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • Artificial neural network: a universal function approximator (= non-linear regression model) weights weights x1 a ij b jk y1 ⎛ N hid ⎞ x2 u 1x y2 yk = F ⎜ bok + ⎜ ⎝ ∑ b jk u j ⎟ ⎟

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