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inexact

adj

Etymology

From French inexact.

  1. derived from inexact

Definitions

  1. Imperfectly conforming

    Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.

  2. Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.

    • At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.

  3. having a path-dependent integral

The neighborhood

  • antonymexactantonym(s) of “precisely agreeing”
  • antonymperfectantonym(s) of “precisely agreeing”
  • antonympreciseantonym(s) of “precisely agreeing”
  • antonymstrictantonym(s) of “precisely or definitely conceived or stated”

Derived

inexactly, inexactness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inexact. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inexact. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at inexact

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA