imprecision

Noun

Meaning

Want of precision.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

impreciseness error confusion doubt approximation fault ambiguity vague obscurity discrepancy generality falsity opacity inaccuracy cloudiness
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Antonyms

precision definition prudence address poetry accuracy
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Hypernyms

inexactness inexactitude

Phrases with the word

compass imprecision

Examples

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. Jorge Luis Borges

No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. (Hays translation) Marcus Aurelius

As others have pointed out above, the bureaucratic opacity in a language culturally attuned to obfuscation and imprecision and documentation in a script virtually unknown out side the islands are alone sufficient reason not to risk the investment. Source: Internet

Criticizing her "gaps and imprecision," O'Rourke concluded that Wolf's claim that no viable mechanism existed at Yale to prevent and prosecute sexual harassment was "deeply flawed." Source: Internet

A weakness of the Scoville Organoleptic Test is its imprecision due to human subjectivity, depending on the taster's palate and their number of mouth heat receptors, which varies greatly among people. Source: Internet

However, mechanical imprecision in slide rules that were poorly constructed or warped by heat or use will lead to errors. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

imprecise timing imprecisely impreciseness impredicative impredicativity impredictable