Inaccuracy meaning

ĭn-ăk'yər-ə-sē
The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
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An instance of being inaccurate; an error.
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The quality of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.
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An error or mistake.
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(uncountable) The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.
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(countable) A statement, passage etc. that is inaccurate or false.
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(uncountable) Incorrect calibration of a measuring device, or incorrect use; lack of precision.
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Origin of inaccuracy

in- 'un-, not' + accuracy (from Latin accuratus, from the past participle of accurare "to take care of", itself from ad- "to" + curare "take care of" (from cura "care, concern, trouble", from a Proto-Indo-European base *kois- "to be concerned"))

Sentence Examples

  • In his histories proper the special motive for embellishment disappears, but the habit of inaccuracy remains.

  • He has also himself suffered much from the inaccuracy of copyists.

  • The first volume was attacked in 1733 for unfairness and inaccuracy by Isaac Maddox, afterwards bishop of St Asaph and of Worcester, to whom Neal replied in a pamphlet, A Review of the principal facts objected to in the first volume of the History of the Puritans; and the remaining volumes by Zachary Grey (1688-1766), to whom the author made no reply.

  • 1887), the inaccuracy of which is clearly demonstrated by J.

  • The well-known sentence of Carlyle, that it is "as far as possible from meriting its high reputation," is in strictness justified, for all Thiers's historical work is marked by extreme inaccuracy, by prejudice which passes the limits of accidental unfairness, and by an almost complete indifference to the merits as compared with the successes of his heroes.

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