Significados de first approximation en inglés

To a first approximation, planets revolve round their stars in elliptical orbits.

The experimental data agree to a first approximation with data from mathematical models.

It was several minutes before he got even the first approximation to an answer.

His first approximation had been off the mark, a bit.

This scenario fits the Holocene to a first approximation, but the late Pleistocene is a great puzzle.

At least, to a first approximation.

At first approximation, there is only one force acting on the space station-thegravitational pull from the Earth.

In the language of Xenophon we find the first approximation to the common dialect, which became afterwards the universal language of Greece.

To first approximation, let me assume that the tape is pulling in the exact opposite direction the car is trying to drive.

Which reminded her that she needed at least to make a first approximation of a requisition list for the next shipment from Earth.

While it is difficult to isolate the contribution of each factor in physiological experiments, a first approximation can be done in modelling studies.

To a first approximation, then, the South China Sea would need more than 1x1024 human tears to fill it.

By using the starting point of a first approximation of the answer, one can write an algorithm that converges more quickly to the correct result.

To a first approximation, the real extract is the level of everything from the wort left behind after fermentation except for ash (inorganic minerals).

The first approximation to this answer then would be: *How many unique sets of 100 can you create from 8 million songs?

(This is a first approximation, modified later.)