American English pronunciation
How to pronounce imprecise
IPA transcription: ['ɪmpɹə,saɪs]
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Adjective
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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.