Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ALMOST

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Definitions of ALMOST

1. Very close to, but not quite.
2. (mathematics) Up to, except for a negligible set (where negligible is not universally but contextually defined).
3. (informal) Something or someone that doesn't quite make it.

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Examples of Using ALMOST in a Sentence

• In addition to mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean is frequently used in economics, anthropology, history, and almost every academic field to some extent.
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.
• Similarly, the set of algebraic (real) numbers is countably infinite and has Lebesgue measure zero as a subset of the real numbers, and in that sense, almost all real numbers are transcendental.
• Throughout mathematics, "almost all" is sometimes used to mean "all (elements of an infinite set) except for finitely many".
• During the reigns of his older brothers, Ahmed was imprisoned in Kafes, and he stayed there almost 43 years.
• There is a good fossil record of Ailanthus with many species names based on their geographic occurrence, but almost all of these have very similar morphology and have been grouped as a single species among the three species recognized:.
• Alessandro Algardi (July 31, 1598 – June 10, 1654) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome.
• Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes (Against the Letter of Philip) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.
• The argument from morality is noteworthy in that one cannot evaluate the soundness of the argument without attending to almost every important philosophical issue in meta-ethics.
• The American Quarter Horse is the most popular breed in the United States, and the American Quarter Horse Association is the largest breed registry in the world, with almost three million living American Quarter Horses registered in 2014.
• His rabbinical education was acquired mainly at Tiberias in the academy presided over by Johanan bar Nappaha, with whom his relationship was almost that of a son.
• Due to the fact that each successive Caliph had children almost exclusively with European Christian slave girls, the "Arab" gene was reduced in half, so that the last Umayyad Caliph, Hisham II was around only.
• The polis lay 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos River, almost directly opposite the island of Thasos.
• It can run almost all Atari 2600 cartridges, making it one of the first consoles with backward compatibility.
• For much of its history, from the early 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person.
• Alma is the longest book in the Book of Mormon and consists of sixty-three chapters, taking up almost a third of the volume.
• The country has two parts physically separated by Malaysia, making it almost an enclave within Malaysia.
• It is almost entirely supported by exports of crude oil and natural gas, with revenues from the petroleum sector accounting for over half of GDP.
• The total length of the network is almost 40,000 km, divided nearly in half between the national and the municipal road network.
• Burundi itself is a landlocked country lacking resources, and with almost nonexistent industrialization.

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