Lexicostatistics is a way of quantifying an approximate evaluation of the degree to which any given languages are genetically related to one another.

As of 2006, it was believed that Top Channel held an average viewing rate of 70%, though these are based on approximate evaluations and not officially confirmed.

The next morning at eleven o'clock on the dot three lawyers appeared at the residence of Tomas de Romeu; they went through all his papers, turned out the contents of his desk, checked through his slapdash accounting, and made an approximate evaluation of his holdings.