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Definition of Inexact
1. Adjective. Not exact.
Similar to: Approximate, Approximative, Rough, Free, Liberal, Loose, Odd, Round
Antonyms: Exact
Derivative terms: Inexactness
Definition of Inexact
1. a. Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Definition of Inexact
1. Adjective. Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect. ¹
2. Adjective. Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated ¹
3. Adjective. (context: physics of a differential) having a path-dependent integral ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inexact
1. not exact [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexact
Literary usage of Inexact
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1904)
"When the transitional stage of the higher only resembles the lower form in some
one or more features, but not in all, the parallelism is said to be "inexact ..."
2. Natural Inheritance by Francis Galton (1889)
"Application of the method of Schemes to inexact Measures.—Schemes of Frequency.
Fraternities and Populations to be Treated as Units. ..."
3. Inductive Sociology: A Syllabus of Methods, Analyses and Classifications by Franklin Henry Giddings (1901)
"... Correlation.2 A coefficient of correlation is always equivalent to a generalization
or a law. inexact Statistics. — An important modification of usual ..."
4. Characteristics of Existing Glaciers by William Herbert Hobbs (1911)
"CHAPTER IX NOURISHMENT OF THE GREENLAND INLAND-ICE Few and inexact Data. — The
problems involving the gains and the losses of the inland-ice of Greenland ..."
5. The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to by Felix Klein, Alexander Ziwet (1893)
"But I maintain that in ordinary life we actually operate with such inexact
definitions, fhus we speak without hesitancy of the direction and curvature of a ..."
6. The Law of Expert Testimony by Henry Wade Rogers (1891)
"The Inadmissibility in Evidence of Opinions and Statements Contained in Standard
Treatises on inexact Sciences—The Rule in England. 165. ..."
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