This is particularly prone to variation resulting from wing posture and is rarely used except as a rough indicator of size.

Economic growth measures the growth of production output and, therefore, it is only a rough indicator of economic welfare.

The steady rate of shouting and imploring is rough indicator of the melodrama level.

Such poll readings are considered a rough but useful indicator of the political terrain on which individual candidates must fight.

Exit polls have historically and throughout the world been used as a check against and rough indicator of the degree of election fraud.

She now had a rough indicator of time, a clock measured by the changes in her body.

Both species pick up numerous white scars all over the body as they age and may be a rough indicator of age.

Fracture strain is nevertheless a rough indicator of the formability of a material.

There are two rough indicators of these factors.

The first measure is a rough indicator of overall performance; the second indicates speed at solving scientific problems.