What's the difference between accuracy and impressionistic?
Accuracy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(4) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(5) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
(6) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(7) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(8) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
(9) The sensitivity , accuracy, and reproductibility of this method are described and discussed.
(10) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(11) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(12) This longitudinal study compares the accuracy of self-assessments of 22 students across four examinations during their first 2 years of medical school.
(13) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(14) We assume that the fragments have been assembled and address the problem of determining the degree to which the reconstructed sequence is free from errors, i.e., its accuracy.
(15) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
(16) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
(17) The midsystolic Doppler velocity showed the highest predictive accuracy (94%) for the detection of severe aortic stenosis.
(18) By completing these three steps, we feel that we have improved the overall accuracy of our custom block making system which has resulted in more accurate treatments for our patients.
(19) This data gives the radiotherapist some useful parameters for the selection of applicators and general knowledge of the accuracy of the system.
(20) In contrast, US-guided FNAC had an accuracy of 89% (62 of 70), a sensitivity of 76% (25 of 33), and a specificity of 100% (37 of 37).
Impressionistic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.
Example Sentences:
(1) To check on impressionistic assertions that the United States is becoming an "age-irrelevant society," a quota sample of white-collar and blue-collar men and women (ages eighteen to seventy; N = 462) was studied with a questionnaire that asked for designation of the most suitable ages for various role transitions and age-related attributes.
(2) This latest upswing in themarket for impressionist and modernist works simply represents a more cautious investment in art’s bluechip stocks and given the limited supply, we’ll no doubt see a new sale record very soon.
(3) Britain's biggest auction of Impressionist art in a decade was crowned last night when Amedeo Modigliani's Garçon à la Veste Bleu sold for more than £6m.
(4) Looking at her piles of source material and cuttings, you half expect her to announce as the old impressionist used to: “And this is me”.
(5) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
(6) A poignant and powerful piece, m b v often bears closer comparison to abstract impressionist painters such as Mark Rothko.
(7) The right is "painterly" and the left is "superficially powerful and impressionistic".
(8) Studies of the variables that determine whether an adolescent is placed in the mental health or juvenile justice system for treatment have led to conflicting conclusions based on impressionistic data.
(9) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
(10) The EEG data were subjected to both impressionistic and quantitative analyses.
(11) In the first case we show that accessory phenotypes with higher penetrance than that of schizophrenia itself may be crucial for effective linkage analysis, and in the second case we show that impressionistic selection of informative pedigrees may be misleading.
(12) "It's meant to be a kind of visual mash-up, or an impressionistic reinterpretation of all those things.
(13) Van Gogh , one of the greatest figures in Post-Impressionist painting, worked on paper as he excitedly awaited the arrival of his artist-friend, Paul Gauguin.
(14) Having previously known little about impressionism, he had arrived in Paris in time to see the eighth (and last) impressionist exhibition.
(15) Political satire has also, in recent decades, graduated towards standup comics and impressionists, with no role for the straight frontman Frost played on his comedy shows.
(16) Data collection is separated from inference, hence the criticism that the nursing data is impressionistic and opinionated is avoided.
(17) You’ve got Rodin’s The Kiss and Rodin’s The Thinker and this is up there with them in terms of importance and recognisability ... it is such a classic.” John Berger: the dark side of Degas's ballet dancers Read more Degas first exhibited his wax figure of a young ballet dancer – one of Paris Opera Ballet’s “little rats” – dressed in real silk and tulle tutu, at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881 in Paris.
(18) More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby’s next big London impressionist and modern art sale, the auction house announced on Wednesday.
(19) "This is a market for masterpieces," said Melanie Clore of the impressionist department.
(20) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).