INACCURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inaccurate mean? 

• INACCURATE (adjective)
  The adjective INACCURATE has 1 sense:

1. not accurate

  Familiarity information: INACCURATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INACCURATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not accurate

Context example:

the thermometer is inaccurate

Similar:

away; outside ((of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter)

faulty; incorrect; wrong (characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules)

unfaithful (not trustworthy)

wide; wide of the mark (not on target)

Also:

incorrect; wrong (not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth)

inexact (not exact)

imprecise (not precise)

Attribute:

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

Antonym:

accurate (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)

 Context examples 

Issue can include but is not limited to this material being unclear, missing worn out, incorrect or inaccurate.

(Medical Device Markings Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

If we only studied the animals living today it would give us a very inaccurate picture of their evolution – it is the same with viruses.

(Oldest genetic evidence of Hepatitis B virus found in ancient DNA from 4,500 year-old skeletons, University of Cambridge)

Issue associated with the inaccurate outcome of a measurement/values/data obtained from the device being different from displayed, printed, stored, or exported measurements/values/data.

(Improper Medical Device Output, Food and Drug Administration)

In this approach, a health worker applies dilute acetic acid to the cervix and inspects the cervix with the naked eye, looking for "aceto whitening, which indicates possible disease. Because of its convenience and low cost, VIA is widely used where more advanced screening methods are not available. However, it is known to be inaccurate and needs improvement.

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

The research shows that the vertebrate fossil record reported in earlier studies – which has been used as the standard in interpreting Earth's largest known mass extinction – is inaccurate and not sufficient to substantiate the long-held belief that marine species and terrestrial vertebrates perished together.

(Mass extinction of land and sea biodiversity 250 million years ago not simultaneous, National Science Foundation)

A new study by chemists at the University of Arkansas shows that X-ray crystallography, the standard method for determining the structure of proteins, may provide inaccurate information about a critical set of proteins — those found in cell membranes — which in turn could be leading to poor and inefficient drug design.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)