imprecision
Absence of accuracy
Imprecision is lack of exactness or accuracy.
The word often appears in technical contexts where precision matters: The imprecision of the measurements made the results unreliable.
It can also describe vague language or thinking: There's a certain imprecision in how he uses the term.
Openness to multiple interpretations
- nebulousnessQuality of being indistinct
- fuzzinessIndistinct or unclear quality
- hazinessState of being unclear
- blurrinessLack of visual clarity
murkiness · obscurity · indistinctness · indefiniteness · cloudiness · wooliness · looseness · generality
Approximate value judgment
- ballparkSports venue or estimate
- guesstimateRough, intuitive calculation
- roughUneven in surface
- roundedHaving no sharp angles
broad · general · loose · inexact · coarse · sweeping · approximate · rough-cut
Lack of precision
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- miscalculationError in estimation
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
- discrepancyDifference between expected and actual
deviation · drift · offset · distortion · misalignment · miscounting · misreading · misquotation
Lack of fixed outcome
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- variabilityTendency to change
- fluctuationIrregular change over time
- inconsistencyLack of steady pattern
unreliability · instability · randomness · noise · scatter · spread · variance · range
ambiguity
Openness to multiple interpretations
- nebulousnessQuality of being indistinct
- fuzzinessIndistinct or unclear quality
- hazinessState of being unclear
blurriness · murkiness · obscurity · indistinctness · indefiniteness · cloudiness · wooliness · looseness · generality · abstraction
estimation
Approximate value judgment
- ballparkSports venue or estimate
- guesstimateRough, intuitive calculation
- roughUneven in surface
rounded · broad · general · loose · inexact · coarse · sweeping · approximate · rough-cut · back-of-envelope
inaccuracy
Lack of precision
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- miscalculationError in estimation
- misjudgmentFaulty evaluation of something
discrepancy · deviation · drift · offset · distortion · misalignment · miscounting · misreading · misquotation · rounding error
indeterminacy
Lack of fixed outcome
- unpredictabilityState resisting forecasts
- variabilityTendency to change
- fluctuationIrregular change over time
inconsistency · unreliability · instability · randomness · noise · scatter · spread · variance · range · confidence interval
- uncertaintyuncertainty, uncertain, unknown, unsure, unclear
- imprecisioninexactness, inaccuracy, vagueness, fuzziness, approximation
- unclearnessvagueness, ambiguity, obscurity, haziness, fuzziness
- measurement errorssystematic error, sampling error, inaccuracy, error, loading error
- errorserror, mistake, blunder, blunders, fault
- disorderchaos, chaotic, disarray, mess, disordered
imprecisionprecision
Accuracy of measurement
exactness · accuracy · exactitude · preciseness · pinpoint accuracy
imprecisionrigor
Strict, thorough precision
meticulousness · scrupulousness · exactingness · punctiliousness · fastidiousness
imprecisionprecision
Accuracy of measurement
sharpness · clarity · definiteness · specificity · distinctness