fuzziness

fuzzy | American Dictionary

fuzzy
adjective
us/ˈfʌz·i/

fuzzyadjective (NOT CLEAR)

not clear or not easily heard, seen, or understood:
Is the picture always fuzzy on your TV?
The basic facts of the story are starting to emerge though the details are still fuzzy.

fuzzyadjective (HAVING HAIRS/FIBERS)

covered with light, loose hairs or fibers:
I peel peaches because I don’t like their fuzzy skins.

Examples of fuzzy

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However, in the genomes of higher eukaryotes, binding sites are much fuzzier than in yeast and simple motif models are unlikely to yield meaningful results.
Certainly, one can object that this definition is somewhat fuzzier than the wider, more general definition of innovations as the introduction of all novel combinations.
At all these levels, oral history remains the fuzziest, the most problematic and the most subjective of all historical disciplines.
The nearer a value is to 0 or 1 the crisper it is; the nearer it is to 0.5 (the middle value of the range) the fuzzier it is.
Thus, the results of fuzzy k-means clustering are naturally suited for biologists to use in an intuitive and physiologically meaningful way.
Another benefit of the fuzzy k-means algorithm is that it identifies continuous clusters of genes.
The fuzzy tolerance of 25 mapunits was chosen to try to eliminate these from the final coverage.
However, as system complexity increases, reliable fuzzy rules and membership functions for describing the system's behavior become difficult to determine.
A paradigm for learning fuzzy rules is described and demonstrated on the water bath temperature control problem.
In order to assess the per formance of the fuzzy rule set, it is tested with different initial conditions.
The decision table mentioned in the previous section has been widely used in the design of a fuzzy system.
According to the author, this is another piece of evidence that shows that the distinction between modals and full verbs is fuzzy.
The boundaries of these subcategories are somewhat fuzzy for two reasons.
Chapters 4 and 5 explore the at times fuzzy nature of pattern-meaning association.
An adaptive fuzzy control scheme is proposed in reference [10] for compensating the nonlinear gravity component of a manipulator dynamics.
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