rough measure
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Refiners stand to benefit from the crack spread, which is also a rough measure of their profit margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Nonetheless, for a rough measure of Continental Drift’s complexity, he calculated that it has 7 × 10³¹ states, or possible configurations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
This is a rough measure of consumption lost to the epidemic and lockdowns, some of which will be restored as the economy restarts.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2022
One rough measure of race is language, with an estimated 6% of the population speaking at least one of the dozens of Indigenous languages that exist here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The portion which dissolves under the influence of acids has been looked upon as a rough measure of the possible fertility of the soil.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
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