(n.) The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness.
(n.) That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(2) To estimate inaccuracy in a diarrhoea recall survey mothers of pre-school children in Teknaf, Bangladesh were interviewed every week from July 1980 through June 1983.
(3) In 4 (2 micro and 2 macro) of these 8 inaccuracies, the error ranged from 10% to 22%.
(4) These inherent inaccuracies, in many cases exceeding 50%, are much greater than those calculated from ideal Gaussian profiles.
(5) Further, he suggests that there are theoretical reasons why one could expect that one set of circumstances--those which typically apply in the short-term emergency commitment of mentally ill persons predicted to be imminently violent--may be exempt from the systematic inaccuracy found in the current research.
(6) The inaccuracy in the detector placement at the fourth intercostal space gives rise to only a small error in the direction of the detected magnetic heart vector.
(7) Initial barium enema inaccuracies were documented with postendoscopic air-contrast radiography in colons that were endoscopically proved to be mechanically clean following a two-day colon preparation.
(8) It is proposed that the dyslexic children had automatised movement patterns linked to spelling equivalent to their same age peers but that these patterns were built on accumulated inaccuracies in both letter formation and spelling.
(9) This inaccuracy is due to ignorance about the importance of mortality statistics and ICD.
(10) Some suggestions for reducing these high levels of inaccuracy are that papers scheduled for publication with errors of citation should be returned to the author and checked completely and a permanent column specifically for misquotations could be inserted into the journal.
(11) There has long been evidence of frequent inaccuracy of death certificates, with significant discordance between such designations and clinical and autopsy data.
(12) Estimation of mitral valve area (MVA) in the cardiac catheterization laboratory is prone to pitfalls because of the time required for calculations and inaccuracies in the measurement of cardiac output.
(13) For 51Cr-EDTA total plasma clearance greater than 30 ml.min-1, the results which most approximated the reference source were obtained by the Christensen and Groth method at a sampling time of 300 min (inaccuracy of 4.9%).
(14) Using the "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Imaging Technique", the author has been able to accurately localize meridians and acupuncture points that correspond to specific internal organs and has found that most general patterns of meridians and the number of acupuncture points on each of the meridians of specific internal organs of the 12 main internal organs described in the literature of ancient Chinese medicine, are more or less correct, with the exception of some variations and inaccuracies.
(15) Intermittent or inadequate discharge of bacteria from the renal parenchyma is suggested as the major source for this inaccuracy.
(16) The inaccuracy in latency was measured as a function of stimulation level.
(17) At lower levels the results were somewhat more erratic due to inaccuracies of the various methods at low concentrations.
(18) The computational issues investigated were (1) computation of the regularization parameter; (2) effects of inaccuracy in locating the position of the heart; and (3) incorporation of a priori information on the properties of epicardial potentials into the regularization methodology.
(19) How a society deals with disability and employment, both helping people into work and protecting those unable to work, reflects its moral core – whether it opts for evidence, fairness and support, or the current methods of inaccuracy, targets and abandonment.
(20) This paper elucidates their mutual relationship and corrects biographical inaccuracies concerning George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington.
Incorrectness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being incorrect; want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy; inexactness; as incorrectness may in defect or in redundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Only 1.1 percent of birth weights would have been incorrectly classified into low or normal birth weight categories based on maternal reporting.
(3) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(4) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(5) Depending on the statement, between 26 and 54% of the interpretations were incorrect.
(6) A detailed morphologic analysis demonstrated that two of these six cases were incorrectly diagnosed as being pure mucinous carcinomas--they were actually of the mixed type.
(7) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(8) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
(9) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(10) With respect to malignant tumours, in 1961-70 clinical diagnoses were correct in 37% of cases and incorrect for 26%; in 1978-87, 47% were correct and 15% incorrect.
(11) The presence and absence of the firing were correlated with the correct and incorrect performance of the task, respectively.
(12) The products obtained upon galactanase digestion of the soybean arabianin-galactan demonstrate that the earlier proposal concerning the structure of this polysaccharide must be incorrect.
(13) A total of $4975 of patient charges was associated with incorrectly obtained SDCs or inappropriate actions taken on SDC results.
(14) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
(15) It is proposed that the intermediates have an incorrectly formed beta sheet whose maturation to the structure found in the native conformation is one of the slow steps in folding.
(16) Bias is any systematic error in the design, conduct, analysis, or interpretation of a study that tends to produce an incorrect assessment of the nature of the association between an exposure or risk factor and the occurrence of disease.
(17) Therefore, the acronym NAALADase seems to be incorrect, and peptidase activity against NAAG will be used throughout this manuscript when referring to the enzyme that cleaves NAAG and whose activity is inhibited by quisqualate and beta-NAAG.
(18) The obvious questions, (1) which tree is the correct one, or (2) both trees can be incorrect, and (3) how can we explain such an evolutionary pattern, are discussed on the basis of our limited knowledge of factors that influence the clocklike behavior of biological macromolecules.
(19) Exceptions to HLA association in GH are rare and can be explained by: (1) incorrect HLA serotyping, (2) chromosomal recombination, or (3) rare homozygous-homozygous mating.
(20) Misfolded models were constructed by introducing incorrect side chains onto polypeptide backbones: side chains of the alpha-helical hemerythrin were modeled on the beta-sheeted backbone of immunoglobulin VL domain, whereas those of the VL domain were similarly modeled on the hemerythrin backbone.