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Meaning of roughly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  roughly
      adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;
             "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute";
             "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can
             stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people
             came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly
             $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so
             people were at the party" [syn: {approximately}, {about},
             {close to}, {just about}, {some}, {roughly}, {more or
             less}, {around}, {or so}]
      2: with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant
         for `roughly'); "he was pushed roughly aside"; "they treated
         him rough" [syn: {roughly}, {rough}]
      3: with rough motion as over a rough surface; "ride rough" [syn:
         {roughly}, {rough}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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