imprecise

Meaning varies from one instance to another, even one moment to the next, and disputes arise from imprecise communication.

If you want an imprecise (conservative) garbage collector, the GC and the compiler are almost disjoint.

DS2 has a lot more variety but also has a large number of basic mechanical issues, such as imprecise hitboxes.

Although they can help guide and inspire our research, it's unsustainable to depend on such imprecise concepts in the long run.

The current version is imprecise, high-friction, snd can't even survive one rotation of the output.

Similarly, it is often the case that new fields of mathematics arise from someone defining a new concept that was previously imprecise.

One is to forever remain fuzzy and imprecise in your understanding, the other is to learn the notation you need, see how it matches your internal understanding, and then use it as an enabler.

I see our various emotions not as the opposite of intelligence, but rather as high speed, roughly-tuned, very imprecise guesstimation engines.

In fact, it required more epicycles / gave more imprecise results.

I think you could argue that physics (and other sciences) are applied philosophy, but they have the same issues with imprecise definitions.

I think this style might work for very simple music sheets, but would become way too confusing and imprecise for complex ones.

That's absolutely correct and thanks for clarifying my imprecise language.

Yes I'm shocked by how UIs dealing with very precise things sometimes use imprecise dating like "tomorrow".

We try to capture these intuitions with imprecise labels like "fair".

The term "Oriental" had fallen out of favor, and now we say "Asian" which to me is horribly imprecise.

The reason these are kind of neat is that using the standard Unum algorithms (without any fudging), you can get "correct" (albeit terribly imprecise) results for many real number computations.