Usually means: Moving closer to something specific.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. approaching: Merriam-Webster
  2. approaching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. approaching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Approaching, approaching: Wordnik
  5. approaching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. approaching: Wiktionary
  7. Approaching, approaching: Dictionary.com
  8. approaching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Approaching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. approaching: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. approaching: Rhymezone
  12. Approaching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. approaching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. approaching: FreeDictionary.org
  15. approaching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. approaching: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. approaching: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approaching: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approaching: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. approaching: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. approaching: Idioms

(Note: See approach as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (approaching)

adjective:  That approaches or approach.
adverb:  Nearly.
noun:  The act of coming closer; an approach.

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