Crossword clues for inaccuracy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inaccuracy \In*ac"cu*ra*cy\, n.; pl. Inaccuracies.
The quality of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy or exactness.
That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1701, "quality or condition of being inaccurate," from inaccurate + -cy. As an example of this, by 1883.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy. 2 (context countable English) A statement, passage etc. that is inaccurate or false. 3 (context uncountable English) Incorrect calibration of a measuring device, or incorrect use; lack of precision.
WordNet
n. the quality of being inaccurate and having errors [ant: accuracy]
Usage examples of "inaccuracy".
We need to remember, however, that inaccuracy by no means connotes inveracity.
There is here no imputation against the honesty of any writer, even when carelessness, exaggeration and inaccuracy are not only alleged, but demonstrated to exist.
Of personal contributions to the literature of the subject, during the past third of a century, nearly everything has been more or less polemical, called forth by either exaggeration of utility, inaccuracy of assertion, or misstatement of fact.
President of a medical association, making a speech, wherein hardly a sentence was not stamped with inaccuracy and ignorance.
Or, in the interest of Science herself, should not one attempt the exposure of inaccuracy, and the demonstration of the truth?
We shall have reason hereafter to see the inaccuracy of this statement, so far as may be evinced by the opinions of English physiologists and teachers.
Statements, the inaccuracy of which may easily be ascertained, are again and again repeated, until it would almost seem that upon reiteration of error and untruth a certain degree of dependence has been placed for the creation of prejudice against reform.
But from the charge of carelessness, of gross inaccuracy, is one as readily to be freed?
But every discerning reader should recognize that inaccuracy or untruth does not imply the moral obliquity that pertains to intentional falsehood.
Experimentation in this direction, in all probability would prove the assertion to be untrue, but although such demonstration would be proof of inaccuracy and carelessness, it could not justify, in any way, the charge of dishonourable motives.
In no instance, therefore, in the illustrations of inaccuracy given in the preceding pages, is there any imputation of perverse and intentional inveracity.
Eager as he is to charge inaccuracy upon others, has he been always accurate himself?
But a critic whose microscopic eye discerns inaccuracy in others should be very careful to make no similar errors himself.
One can hardly find a dozen pages in which a careful reader would not discover some inaccuracy or over-statement.
Indeed they have reached a pitch of inaccuracy that could not be attained without co-operation.