(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.
Inexactness
Definition:
(n.) Incorrectness; want of exactness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper a fuzzy model of inexact reasoning in medicine is developed.
(2) Even though conflict diagnosis is an inexact process, the thoughtful critique of conflict experiences can result in a better understanding of issues, and help guide a more skilled and effective response.
(3) However, a 32-base pair element that is repeated in gene 1 is present only as a single inexact copy in gene 2.
(4) Furthermore, the dating methods used can be inexact, thrown off by hundreds of years because of a fish-rich diet, for example.
(5) It is clear that the pitfalls are due to the inexact interpretation of parameters used.
(6) The critical period for exposure appears to be two to five weeks postconception, although this is clinically inexact.
(7) In previous decades, high caries rates were so prevalent that the dental profession could risk having inexact projections because overwhelming need and demand existed.
(8) A review of both past and present psychiatric literature reveals that the concept of hypochondriasis is inexact and confusing.
(9) This DVD sales forecasting is, however, an inexact science.
(10) Crack use was also associated with GUD (OR = 15.15, 95% CI = 3.27-inexact) and multiple simultaneous STDs (OR = 13.87, 95% CI = 4.62-inexact).
(11) The role of the psychiatrist is to proffer a relevant opinion while nevertheless realizing that the inexact nature of the science limits the use such an opinion may have.
(12) Peritoneal lavage is diagnostically inexact in patients with diaphragmatic rupture.
(13) The determination of the edentulous interridge dimension is at best an inexact process.
(14) In order to master fuzziness and uncertainty in solving human problems, an expert system shell SYSTEM Z-II which can handle both exact and inexact reasoning has been successfully developed.
(15) In visual valuation of the blood glucose concentrations by means of Haemo-Glucotest 20-800 with increasing blood glucose concentration an increasing inexactness is to be stated, whereas Glucosignal is characterized by more favourable parameters of quality.
(16) In the cell lines some specificities show a suggestive but inexact correlation with HLA-D locus factors.
(17) The current classification of cavitary optic disc anomalies including the morphologically related entities--optic nerve pit, morning glory disc anomaly, coloboma of the optic nerve, and retinochoroidal coloboma involving the optic nerve--is inexact and confusing.
(18) The mutagenicity of chromium as tested in the bacterial strain of Salmonella typhimurium (strain TA 104) was decreased when tested without metabolic activation with the addition of leachate (of inexact analysis) from a waste site.
(19) Botha, however, says it is an inexact procedure, with all sorts of factors which can change the process, and thus affect calculations of time of death.
(20) The imprecision arises both from data that are inexact or incomplete and from the use of ecological principles that are sometimes less than fully reliable and may be conflicting.