imprecision
(ɪmprɪˈsɪʒən)
[f. im-2 + precision.]
Want of precision; inexactness.
| 1803 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIV. 487 The imprecision of this language arises from Berkeley's not having investigated what ideas are. 1815 Ibid. XXXVIII. 502 The slightest imprecision of outline may annihilate beauty. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 637 Scorbutus..could not therefore, without imprecision be used in a generic signification. 1954 W. Stevens Coll. Poems 353 The romance of the precise is not the elision Of the tired romance of imprecision. 1971 Nature 4 June 274/1 For one thing, it pointed to strictly legal imprecisions in the legislation which at present regulates the use of transplants in Britain. |