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inexactitude

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in·ex·act·i·tude  (ng-zkt-td, -tyd)
n.
Lack of exactitude; inexactness.
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Noun1.inexactitude - the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
inaccuracy - the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
impreciseness, imprecision - the quality of lacking precision

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The IRS and the Board of Tax Appeals disallowed his claimed deductions, but sympathetic Judge Learned Hand, after determining that Cohan had indeed traveled on business and incurred allowable expense, ruled that the Service "should make as close an approximation as it can, bearing heavily if it chooses upon the taxpayer whose inexactitude is of his own making.
The architects responded to this unedifying inexactitude by designing an utterly simple glazed rectangular box, with a stair tower pulled clear of the main volume on the north side.
Republicans cried foul, and McClintock, citing parliamentary protocols that prohibit the use of the word ``lie'' in debate, evoked Churchill by calling the proposal a ``terminological inexactitude.
 
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