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proximate
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proximate /prox·i·mate/ (prok´sĭ-mit) immediate or nearest.
prox·i·mate (prks-mt)
adj.
Closely related in space, time, or order; very near; proximal.
proximate
[prok′simit]
Etymology: L, proximus, nearest
the nearest to a point of origin or attachment.
proximate [prok´sĭ-māt]
immediate; nearest.
proximate
immediate; nearest.
proximate analysis
a chemical method of assessing and expressing the nutritional value of a feed. It divides each feed into six categories and states the percentage of each that is present in the feed:
(1) water (or dry matter).
(2) total or crude protein (total nitrogen×6.25).
(3) fat (or ether extract).
(4) ash (minerals).
(5) crude fiber (incompletely digested carbohydrates).
(6) nitrogen-free extract (readily digestible carbohydrate).
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28) IV What to some extent may be startling here is the proximation of that aspect of a yearning for binary singularity to be found in the early-modern Timber of Discoveries, as well as in some uses of the words "black" and "white" in Hamlet, to the search here, in the early twenty-first-century anti-Western Al-Hamlet Summit, for a singular purity in response to what the play in turn also seeks to register as a singular (again) injustice.
Speaking process by Orkin, Martin / Shakespeare Studies
My favourite proximation, by the way, was "Stephen Howard": there's no higher praise than being taken for John Howard's cousin.
Londonistan calling: the U.K.'s proven it will fight the radical ... by Steyn, Mark / Western Standard
A group of North Koreans viewed Existentialism represented by Camus and Sartre as the proximation of human limitation, loneliness, insecurity, humiliation, fear and a killer of the fighting spirit of the masses.
North Korea: a literary view by Choi, Yearn Hong / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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