noun🔗Share接近音A consonant sound made by slightly narrowing the vocal tract, while still allowing a smooth flow of air. Liquids and glides are approximants."In phonetics class, we learned that the sounds /r/, /l/, /w/, and /j/ are classified as approximants because they involve a smooth, partially open vocal tract. "音声学の授業で、/r/, /l/, /w/, /j/の音は、滑らかで部分的に開いた声道を伴うため、接近音に分類されることを学びました。languagephoneticslinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share近似An approximation to the solution of a function, series, etc."After several iterations, the student found that the successive approximants got closer and closer to the true answer of the complicated math problem. "数回の反復の後、学生は、連続する近似が複雑な数学の問題の真の答えにますます近づいていることに気づいた。mathsciencetechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
