INACCURACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inaccuracy mean? 

• INACCURACY (noun)
  The noun INACCURACY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being inaccurate and having errors

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INACCURACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being inaccurate and having errors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inaccuracy"):

inexactitude; inexactness (the quality of being inexact)

looseness (a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice)

Antonym:

accuracy (the quality of being near to the true value)

 Context examples 

In addition, splicing inaccuracies or insertion of additional nucleotides at the segment junctions generate further junctional diversity and somatic hypermutation of V regions, as B-lymphocytes proliferate, create better fitting antigen-binding sites.

(Generation of Antibody Diversity, NCI Thesaurus)

I had already remarked that his language was excellent, marred with an occasional slight inaccuracy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

However, Mercury’s position retrograde may delay things or bring up inaccuracies, so be patient and watch over details.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Issue associated with the inaccuracy of a device designed to respond to an input (such as temperature, illumination, motion) to transmit a resulting signal that can not be used for interpretation or measurement.

(Invalid Sensing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

However, I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy; and as much for the manner in which it was said, as for the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one does not often see such a manner: no, on the contrary, affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Issue associated with inaccuracies in any written, printed, or graphic matter that is affixed to a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including verbal instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufacturers.

(Incorrect Instruction for Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)

He betrayed the inaccuracies of the self-read man, and, it must be granted, the sureness and directness of the primitive mind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Also, now that Mercury is retrograde, you may need to double-check facts, for you may find inaccuracies.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)