inexactitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   lack of exactness, accuracy, or precision

   The inevitable inexactitude of the measurement limits the conclusion that can be drawn from it.

2. 2
   noun

   a particular inaccurate or imprecise detail

   The revised edition corrects several inexactitudes in the original table.

Borrowed from French inexactitude, formed from inexact + -itude. Exactitude ultimately derives from Latin exactus ("precise, completed"), the past participle of exigere ("to drive out, measure, complete").

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