imprecision

[ UK /ɪmpɹɪsˈɪʒən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of lacking precision
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How To Use imprecision In A Sentence

  • The reason for the imprecision is the spread of durations of the individual bonds. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • And when, in the third minute of first-half stoppage time, the home side scored the goal they needed, the one that set them on the way to a deserved victory, it came from a moment of uncharacteristic imprecision by the exiled Catalan. Homecoming leaves Arsenal's Cesc Fábregas guilty and conflicted | Richard Williams
  • Think rumpled imprecision when it comes to fall's best-tressed heads; the look juxtaposes well with the season's more sophisticated fashions.
  • The author's other problem is an affected imprecision of language.
  • The estimates of efficacy are robust to imprecision in the separate estimates of the effect of the individual components because overestimates will tend to cancel underestimates.
  • The budget office put a big asterisk on its forecast, using words like "imprecision" and Stock.xchng - recently uploaded stock images
  • Nutter with the putter, Craig Bellamy, deserves his shot at glory Patrick Barclay: Craig Bellamy represents one of those phraseological imprecisions in football, being a "winner" who hasn't... Evening Standard - Home
  • Does the imprecision of language get in the way of understanding?
  • There was a good deal of rhetoric, circumlocution and imprecision in language.
  • Washington isn't a party to the suit at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, but opposes the EU law on grounds of jurisdiction, imprecision in the program's rules and other issues. U.S. Environmentalists Back EU Emission Plan
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