IMPRECISE


Meaning of IMPRECISE in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

imprecise estimates

His use of language is vague and imprecise .

Many of the terms used in this book are imprecise .

She gave me directions to the hotel, but they were, shall we say, somewhat imprecise .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise .

Furthermore the sense in which we describe certain dilemmas, impulses, intuitions, or decisions as moral ones is notoriously imprecise .

If the neurons control speech, words slur and become increasingly imprecise .

In particular, how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated?

Is knowledge lost from memory or does it change, becoming vague and imprecise , or distorted, or disconnected and fragmented?

The rhythms are very useful, even though quite imprecise .

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