a control or restraint of the senses.

a control of one's wrath, aggressiveness, etc.; calmness; collectedness.

the act or fact of becoming or making less hard to bear (pain, suffering, distress, etc.) alleviation; a mitigating.

a control or restraint of the senses.

a control of one's wrath, passion, aggressiveness, etc.

a value approximately equal.

(math.) a result in mathematics not rigorously exact, but so near the truth as to be sufficient for a given purpose; approximation.