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Lack of accuracy
Answer for the clue "Lack of accuracy ", 11 letters:
imprecision
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Word definitions for imprecision in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + precision .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Lack of precision or exactness; defect of accuracy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of lacking precision [syn: impreciseness ] [ant: preciseness , preciseness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imprecision \Im`pre*ci"sion\, n. Lack of precision. [R.]
Usage examples of imprecision.
Gird, somewhat impatient after a day spent settling quarrels between granges, had no sympathy with his imprecision.
Although these highest objects of knowledge use the hypotheses below to foster an understanding of the nature of absolute ideas, they are not affected by the imprecision and distortion of the sensible world.
In this curious lack of distinction between the general and specific applications of the word, in the use of it for both the whole and the part, the state and the individual, in this imprecision is its precisest meaning.
She did not take into account the imprecision with which her brain rendered what it received.
Charges of imprecision and exaggeration have never been laid at the doors of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine or the Registrar General.