inexact
adjEtymology From French inexact.
1
Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
2
Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.
- At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7:
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of a differential having a path-dependent integral
- Derived terms
- inexactly, inexactness