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Meanings of rough approximation in English

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Usage of rough approximation in English
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This map shows a rough approximation of routing frequencies across America's fiber paths.
Wired
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She said, with the usual rough approximation of English, 'You.
The Long War
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The following table gives a rough approximation of these ratios:
The Dollar Hen
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Comparisons to other substances give only a rough approximation of what it is like.
Witch School's First Degree
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What had been a rough approximation of a landing field now was total darkness.
Carrion comfort
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Got the direction solid, from my own observations; the velocity's a pretty rough approximation though.
Spacehounds of IPC
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This presents, at best, a rough approximation; the fuzzy snapshot is more a Monet than a Caravaggio.
The Irish Times
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I was keen to try for a rough approximation of both in the poems I worked on.
The Guardian
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I omitted the corrections of parallax and aberrations, not intending to get more than a rough approximation.
Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
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We are, as humans, heavily socialized to make a kind of rough approximation between cause and effect.
The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
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The ASCII diagram below gives a rough approximation.]
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
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The ASCII illustration below gives a rough approximation.]
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
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Which is a rough approximation of what I'll be shouting at him if he doesn't win this championship.
The Guardian
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The guy in the sweatshirt was swallowing hard and blinking and standing in a rough approximation of parade-ground order.
Nothing to lose
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The so-called science of food chemistry is really a rough approximation of things about which the actual facts are unknown.
The Dollar Hen
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Suppose the fairing drops from a height of 100 kilometers (a rough approximation for the edge of space).
Wired
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