inexactness
- noun
- /ˌɪnɪɡˈzɛktnəs/
:
imprecisión
- This framing of text provides an opportunity to examine text that is not only contextual, but also provides a certain amount of vagueness and flexibility or inexactness as future literacies and technologies warrant (Brooks, 2004).
Examples
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The novelty of this study lay in our attempt to reflect the inexactness of real-world reasoning (Dunbar, 2001) by soliciting preferred-answer responses, as opposed to correct answers.
Academic text (2008) -
The inexactness of the measurements led to significant errors in the final report.
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Such inexactness can be very costly in test errors.
Academic text (1993) -
He routinely denigrated geology and natural history as "inexact" sciences, and because photography shared in this inexactness, it was not yet for him an adequate instrument for surveying the West.
Academic text (2003) -
Engineers must account for the inexactness in their calculations to avoid any potential issues.
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Due to the inexactness of the data, researchers had to revise their conclusions multiple times.
Synonyms
24
4.9
A mistake in information or measurement
3
6.5
A thing that is not exact or clear, for example a measurement
1
8.6
A lack of exactness or accuracy
Not being exact causes mistakes
Antonyms
How Exact
169
3.8
2
4.1
3
6.5
24
4.9
22
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inexactness is made from in- ('not'), exact ('correct' or 'careful'), and -ness (a noun ending). So, inexactness is the 'not correct' or 'not precise' quality, which is why it means a lack of precision or accuracy.