roughly

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

approximately
approximatelyHe makes approximately $60,000 a year.
aboutThe job will take about three months.
aroundI will be there around four o'clock.
roughlyThere were roughly 200 people at the meeting.
or soThey raised £200 or so for charity.
Due to a slight technical hitch the concert will be starting approximately half an hour late.
In 1992 the population of Cairo was approximately 6,500,000.1992年开罗的人口约为650万。
One pound is approximately equal to 454 grams.1磅约等于454克。
The length of the bay is approximately 200 miles.海湾的长度约为200英里。
The earth takes approximately 365 days to go round the sun.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Approximate
about
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exact
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something like 96 percent, half, etc.idiom
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approximately | Business English

approximately
adverb
uk /əˈprɒksɪmətli/us
close to a particular number or time although not exactly that number or time:
In December, the company reduced its workforce by approximately 5%.
It will take approximately two weeks to collect the data.

Examples of approximately

approximately
In the first 5 months of 1995, 172 plans were surveyed and approximately one-third (34%) were granted full, 3-year accreditation.
There are approximately 700 phonetic radicals and about 140 semantic radicals currently in use.
Approximately one-quarter experienced a hearing limitation or a learning, developmental or psychological disability.
Subsequent step sizes approximately halved the difference between the prior two reversals or starting points.
Approximately two to three requests are received every 4 months.
The joint width of zones 2, 3, and 4 is approximately 20% of the spot radius.
The questionnaire was mailed to the study recruits approximately one week before the interview.
The average susceptibility of hosts at birth in our model remains approximately constant with time.
According to this report, although most married couples sired approximately six to seven children, only one or two survived.
Approximately 3 kg of fresh litter obtained from the removal-treatment plots and the surrounding area was added to the addition-treatment plots.
Each of the sessions took two days to complete and lasted approximately 40 minutes per day.
Then the water composition approximately oscillates at each point of the aquifer in phase with the water velocity.
The procedures used during the two visits were identical, with each session lasting approximately 2 hours.
Approximately one third of the syllables were from multiword utterances.
That is, related and unrelated utterances were easily distinguished using a temporal criterion of approximately 4 seconds.
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