Imprecise
adjective
Not exact or accurate.
The cost estimates for the project are imprecise.
Often appears as...
- imprecise measurements
- imprecise language
adjective
Not exact or accurate.
The cost estimates for the project are imprecise.
Often appears as...
- imprecise measurements
- imprecise language
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Pro Tip 1/3Vague Precision
Imprecise suggests a lack of detail that prevents exact understanding.
His imprecise description made it hard to identify the thief.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Context
In science, imprecise indicates data or results lack strict accuracy.
The imprecise experiment results require further investigation.
Pro Tip 3/3Connotation Caution
Using 'imprecise' can imply criticism; choose it when you need gentle criticism.
The architect's imprecise drawings led to construction delays.
Pro Tip 1/3Vague Precision
Imprecise suggests a lack of detail that prevents exact understanding.
His imprecise description made it hard to identify the thief.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Context
In science, imprecise indicates data or results lack strict accuracy.
The imprecise experiment results require further investigation.
Pro Tip 3/3Connotation Caution
Using 'imprecise' can imply criticism; choose it when you need gentle criticism.
The architect's imprecise drawings led to construction delays.
Pro Tip 1/3Vague Precision
Imprecise suggests a lack of detail that prevents exact understanding.
His imprecise description made it hard to identify the thief.
Pro Tip 2/3Scientific Context
In science, imprecise indicates data or results lack strict accuracy.
The imprecise experiment results require further investigation.
Pro Tip 3/3Connotation Caution
Using 'imprecise' can imply criticism; choose it when you need gentle criticism.
The architect's imprecise drawings led to construction delays.
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The secret to great...
We've got to make ourselves a little more inefficient, and by doing so, we are creating a more imprecise social search engine. And you're creating that randomness, that luck that is going to cause you to widen your travels, through your social universe.
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The first asteroid ever...
Astronomers needed to calculate Ceres's orbit. This would let them predict where it was going to be in the vast night sky on any given night. But the calculations were grueling and the results imprecise. Many astronomers searched for Ceres,
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How an Amateur Built the...
that would be even taller and stronger it would also have no central support system to hold it up during construction even worse the domes base was an imprecise octagon with no true center but Brunelleschi had that covered there
Video examples
The secret to great...
We've got to make ourselves a little more inefficient, and by doing so, we are creating a more imprecise social search engine. And you're creating that randomness, that luck that is going to cause you to widen your travels, through your social universe.
Video examples
The first asteroid ever...
Astronomers needed to calculate Ceres's orbit. This would let them predict where it was going to be in the vast night sky on any given night. But the calculations were grueling and the results imprecise. Many astronomers searched for Ceres,
Video examples
How an Amateur Built the...
that would be even taller and stronger it would also have no central support system to hold it up during construction even worse the domes base was an imprecise octagon with no true center but Brunelleschi had that covered there
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Friedrich August von Hayek
Austrian Economist
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
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Michel Foucault
French Historian
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.
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Kevin Hassett
American Economist
The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.
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Daniel Keys Moran
American Writer
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
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John Piper
American Clergyman
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
Austrian Economist
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Quote examples
Michel Foucault
French Historian
It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.
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Kevin Hassett
American Economist
The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.
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Daniel Keys Moran
American Writer
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
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John Piper
American Clergyman
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
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