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IMPRECISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imprecision mean? 

IMPRECISION (noun)
  The noun IMPRECISION has 1 sense:

1. the quality of lacking precisionplay

  Familiarity information: IMPRECISION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPRECISION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of lacking precision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impreciseness; imprecision

Hypernyms ("imprecision" is a kind of...):

inexactitude; inexactness (the quality of being inexact)

Antonym:

precision (the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance)


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