aproximar

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.pɾok.siˈma/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.pɾuk.siˈma/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.pɾok.siˈmaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

aproximar (first-person singular present aproximo, past participle aproximat)

1. to bring close or closer
2. (reflexive) to come close or closer, to approach

From Latin approximāre, present active infinitive of approximō.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.pɾɔ.si.ˈmaɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.pɾo.si.ˈma(χ)/, /a.pɾo.si.ˈma(ɾ)/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.pɾɔ.si.ˈma(h)/
• Hyphenation: a‧pro‧xi‧mar

aproximar (first-person singular present indicative aproximo, past participle aproximado)

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to approach (to get closer to)

   Não se aproxime daquela região, está contaminada.

   Don’t approach that region, it’s contaminated.

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to approach (to come nearer)

   Podem se aproximar, não estou armado.

   You can approach, I’m not armed.

3. (transitive) to approach (to make things get nearer)

   É difícil aproximar os polos iguais de um par de ímãs.

   It’s hard to put the equal poles of a pair of magnets near one another.

4. (transitive) to approximate; to estimate (to calculate roughly)

   Não tivemos tempo para medir a área então aproximamos um valor.

   We didn’t have time to measure the area, so we estimated a value.

• IPA^(key): /apɾoɡsiˈmaɾ/, [apɾoɣsiˈmaɾ]

aproximar (first-person singular present aproximo, first-person singular preterite aproximé, past participle aproximado)

1. to approach
2. (mathematics) to approximate

• aproximación
• aproximado

• próximo

• “aproximar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.