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Inexact means not exact: close, but not right down to the last bit. A number can be inexact, a translation can be inexact, a memory can be inexact. It does not usually mean “completely wrong”; it means “not precise.” Teachers, scientists, and careful writers use it when they want to be honest that a figure or a wording is only approximate. It is a quieter word than “wrong,” and cooler than “sloppy.” People also talk about an inexact science — a field that cannot give you a perfect, neat answer every time, because real life will not sit still for a ruler. Though actually, calling something inexact can sound polite when the speaker really means “this is too rough to trust.”
不精確的;不準確的(多半不是「全錯」,而是「不夠精準」)
組成From French inexact: in-(不)+ exact(精確的)。
同家族的字
- exactthe opposite piece this word is built on
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inexactadj
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Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
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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.
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicshaving a path-dependent integral
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。