Approximately Equal To
Part of Math Symbols
Approximately Equal To has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ≅
- Unicode
- U+2245
About this symbol
In geometry ≅ means congruent: two shapes are exactly the same size and shape. Unicode’s own name for it is approximately equal to, because in other fields it marks an approximation.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Relations
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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