Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of precision or exactness; defect of accuracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Lack of precision.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
precision orexactness ; defect ofaccuracy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of lacking precision
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Examples
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MWDEU remarks that the phrase’s very imprecision is its greatest virtue: “writers don’t always want to be precise”.
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The reason for the imprecision is the spread of durations of the individual bonds.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Richard Shaw 2010
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A CBO letter to Reid, dated Nov. 18, noted the "imprecision" of the calculation and the great degree of "uncertainty" inherent in healthcare reform finances.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local dbsb3233 2009
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The budget office put a big asterisk on its forecast, using words like "imprecision" and
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They describe the anti-terror laws passed in many Arab countries, in which “imprecision and ambiguity form a threat to basic freedoms”, and note that states have clearly “failed to find the required balance between the security of society and the preservation of individual rights and freedoms”.
Wonk Room » Political Reform And The Legacy Of The War On Terror 2009
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Incidentally, imprecision about who "the rich" are is a persistent flaw in analyses like his.
Jobs and Tax Cuts, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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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 2011
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But the imprecision also makes words more timeless and intimate.
Boing Boing 2009
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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 Daniel Michaels 2011
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Despite the imprecision, Lapan said the military believes insurgents killed far more civilians than U.S. and allied forces have in Iraq.
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