roughly speaking
Adverb
Meaning
roughly speaking (comparative more roughly speaking, superlative most roughly speaking)
Not being totally accurate (used as a phrase to specify).
For our prosperity is inherited from our ancestors, and is of an earlier date than the prosperity not only of Philip, but, roughly speaking, of all the kings that have ever reigned in Macedonia.
Synonym: broadly speaking
Antonym: strictly speaking
Synonyms
Examples
An atlas consists of individual charts that, roughly speaking, describe individual regions of the manifold.
For example, the expected value in rolling a six-sided die is 3.5 because, roughly speaking, the average of all the numbers that come up in an extremely large number of rolls is very nearly always quite close to three and a half.
The venous system finally coalesces into two major veins: the superior vena cava (roughly speaking draining the areas above the heart) and the inferior vena cava (roughly speaking from areas below the heart).
One approach, roughly speaking, is to consider the collection of all domains as a domain itself, and then solve the recursive definition there.
The algorithmic information content in a number is, roughly speaking, the length of the shortest computer program that will produce that number as output.
This principle relies heavily on the natural well-ordering of the non-negative integers; citation roughly speaking, this requires that every non-empty set of non-negative integers has a smallest member.