precise

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

approximate
approximateWe can only give an approximate number for dinner until all the invited guests have responded.
roughThe number of unregistered voters is 13,000, according to rough estimates.
inexactHistorical comparisons are always inexact and often misleading.
impreciseSuch estimates are inherently imprecise.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Approximate
about
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approximately
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exact
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inexactly
ish
loosely
loosey-goosey
more
round
rule
sense
some
something
something like 96 percent, half, etc.idiom
somewhere
sort

inexact | American Dictionary

inexact
adjective
us/ˌɪn·ɪɡˈzækt/
not known in detail or not completely accurate:
Economics is an inexact science.

Examples of inexact

inexact
However, the customers are usually satisfied by inexact matches that are sufficiently close to their needs.
It should be noted that water analysis in the mid-nineteenth century was an inexact science.
Little is known about whether beginning spellers select letters on the basis of partial or inexact matches between letter names and words being written.
We used a scoring metric that allowed the human graders to mark answers in one of three ways: correct, incorrect, and inexact.
This measure is inexact but it is readily available for all states and congressional districts.
Scores are broken down by question type and both the correct scores and the (higher) inexact scores are indicated.
In this case the splitting is still inexact, due to the inexactness in splitting the velocity and mass fields.
We were also interested in children's use of inexact matches between letter names and phoneme sequences.
Yet empirical calculation, although it is inexact, may be adequate in affairs of practice.
The upshot is that inexact solves can greatly reduce the cost of each iteration, at the expense of somewhat slower convergence.
Typically, in practical implementations, inexact solves result in a much more competitive algorithm.
From this it follows that the procedure presented above is a regularization method and that it therefore works with inexact data.
The curious possibility that inexact or incomprehensive accounts might better describe a poet's spirit seems instructive here.
By inexact match, we mean the use of letter names that are similar but not identical to those in the word being spelled.
The conversion of effect measures to a common metric is an inexact science.
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