American English pronunciation

How to pronounce imprecise

IPA transcription: ['ɪmpɹə,saɪs]

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Adjective

  • not precise

    “imprecise astronomical observations”

    “the terms he used were imprecise and emotional”

Usage examples

  • Eurogame is a common, though still an imprecise, label.
  • Clocks were manually wound in those days and time tended to be imprecise.
  • The exact borders of the district are imprecise.
  • So any public calendar is imprecise; it is simply an agreed-upon designation of days.
  • This process was imprecise and extremely dangerous.
  • At very high levels, capillary blood ketone measurement becomes imprecise.
  • Microscopy is another method but is also slow and imprecise.
  • The discrepancy highlights the difficulty in using imprecise census data to estimate population growth.
  • Gnosticism is an imprecise label, covering monistic as well as dualistic conceptions.