approximant

If we settle for the four first terms, the approximant is the following:

I know there's an approximant in there, but is there another surprise?

Nearly all languages with such lateral obstruents also have the approximant.

It usually happens when the fricative and approximant are in the same syllable.

His doctoral thesis described what is now known as the Padé approximant.

The retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages.

In some languages, such as Spanish, there are sounds that seem to fall between fricative and approximant.

Failing that, a devoicing diacritic is added to the approximant.

It also has a symbol for labiodental approximant sounds, .

In linguistics, the symbol is used to represent a labiodental approximant.

Depending on the application, it may be enough to use only the first Newton approximant:

Labial approximant is the name of a class of consonants.

No dialect makes a phonemic contrast between the approximant and the fricative, however.

This can be approximated using a Padé approximant, as follows:

In onsets, it is pronounced as a uvular approximant.

A deep retroflex approximant for "r" is a common characteristic among many rural northwestern speakers.

A Padé approximant approximates a function in one variable.

It is effectively ambiguous between fricative and approximant.

The only common labiodental sounds to occur phonemically are the fricatives and the approximant.

A uvular lateral approximant has been reported to occur in some speakers of American English.

As a consonant, it represents the palatal approximant.

The voiced labio-velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English.

It also has a nasal glottal approximant.

If a particular rational function occurs exactly once in the Padé table, it is called a normal approximant to f(z).

It is not clear if the two rhotics are trill and flap, or tap and approximant.