adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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imprecise estimates
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His use of language is vague and imprecise .
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Many of the terms used in this book are imprecise .
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She gave me directions to the hotel, but they were, shall we say, somewhat imprecise .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise .
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Furthermore the sense in which we describe certain dilemmas, impulses, intuitions, or decisions as moral ones is notoriously imprecise .
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If the neurons control speech, words slur and become increasingly imprecise .
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In particular, how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated?
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Is knowledge lost from memory or does it change, becoming vague and imprecise , or distorted, or disconnected and fragmented?
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The rhythms are very useful, even though quite imprecise .