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Imprecision

Imprecision meaning

A lack of precision or exactness; poor accuracy.

Example sentences (18)

Their imprecision only increases what appears to be their main objective: instilling fear in the local populace.

It produces images that share some of the spontaneity and studied imprecision of impressionist painting, which was developing at much the same time as Théodore-Henri Fresson first demonstrated his pioneering process.

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.

First, there’s the imprecision of his forecast.

Television viewership this time was down roughly 25 percent from 2016, which is striking, even taking into account the imprecision of measuring audiences as more people have the option of watching it on streaming video.

The detention of migrants at the border in the Trump years echoes Rumsfeld’s refusal to share real numbers, but has gone even further in creating a kind of numerical imprecision around reality itself.

The problem with the resultant data was that the imprecision of hitting a virtual key rather than a real one meant lots of errors.

These tools—while effective—have limitations due to the fragmentation of the data sources, inconsistencies in the level and quality of information available, and the locational imprecision and the subjectivity of the observations.

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.

He also noted that the search for an approximate solution is no more efficient: "the more we seek to obtain precise approximations, the more the result will diverge towards an increasing imprecision".

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

Statistical literature prefers to use the terms bias and variability instead of accuracy and precision: bias is the amount of inaccuracy and variability is the amount of imprecision.

The imprecision of the targeting is demonstrated by the inability of the Bureau to define the subjects of the programs.

The imprecision or mistakes usually concerned numbers, ranks, and dates, the first two tending to become inflated with time.

The inaccuracies described in the measurement methods above also contribute to the imprecision of these values.

The role of imprecision may depend on audience, end goal, extended context and subject matter.

Vegetables are usually specified by weight or occasionally by count, despite the inherent imprecision of counts given the variability in the size of vegetables.

What had been attributed to measure imprecision and simple " noise " was considered by chaos theorists as a full component of the studied systems.