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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 precision
Familiarity information: IMPRECISION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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