Example sentences for: imprecision

How can you use “imprecision” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As an instance of the gross imprecision of precedent the author cites a Kentucky case in which, despite the heavy-drinking insured's answer, “Never,’ to a question in a life insurance application as to the use of spirits, the court held the policy valid.

  • This may result from imprecision in the assignment of the 5' breakpoint.

  • The degree of uncertainty in these estimates cannot be quantified because in most cases the source data do not provide it and there are reasons other than statistical imprecision that may also contribute.

  • Human beings are accustomed to a certain amount of imprecision in language: not only does each of use give a slightly different interpretation to the concepts represented by words like good, justice, and God, but our speech is peppered with expressions like I mean, Y' know , and I don't get you . But in the field of learning disabilities, itself a vague, catch-all term suggestive of many interpretations, the onomasiological problem reached such a state of confusion some years ago-- as described in Chapter Two of the subject book-- that in 1964 the U.S. government commissioned a task force devoted to the terminology alone.

  • Estimating the number of novel EPKs in the collection is complicated by the incremental nature of gene characterization and imprecision in the definition of the term 'novel'.


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