INEXACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexact mean? 

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

1. not exact

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXACT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not exact

Similar:

approximate; approximative; rough (not quite exact or correct)

free; liberal; loose (not literal)

odd (an indefinite quantity more than that specified)

round ((mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand)

Also:

inaccurate (not accurate)

imprecise (not precise)

Antonym:

exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)

Derivation:

inexactness (the quality of being inexact)

 Context examples 

If you have been inexact in any point you had better correct it.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The quality of having an uncertain or inexact meaning.

(Ambiguity, NCI Thesaurus)

The authors of this study, Leila Wehbe, Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department of the Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Mitchell, the department head, said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)