Sentence examples for erroneous meaning from inspiring English sources

In ancient polemics, as often since, the term was employed with an even more generic (and clearly erroneous) meaning as the equivalent of hedonism, the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the chief good.

Even though the mMR PET images using MR-based μ-maps are incorrectly quantified, they are consistently (and reproducibly) erroneous, meaning we can still use the cross-calibration results to evaluate the stability of the system in comparison with our five other PET systems (details in Table 2) included in the cross-calibration during the same 3-year period (02/2012 01/2015).

But RSA, the security division of EMC, says 220 companies, including Target, Sears, Macy's, Sprint, T-Mobile and 14 of the 20 largest U.S. financial institutions, use its "knowledge-based authentication" (KBA) service and that it has a "false failure" rate (meaning folks flunking on erroneous public info) of less than 5%.

We assume that, of all N measurements, only a fraction ρ are 'correct' measurements, and the other (1 − ρ) are 'outliers', meaning that these are erroneous measurements.

In his letter, Mr. Wolfowitz retracted that part of his testimony, writing: "Unfortunately, in meaning to convey my frustration about the erroneous coverage of one particular news story, the statement I made came out much differently than I intended.

The role of the tall totem poles from this area has not been well understood by non-Indians, and many erroneous accounts have been published as to their purpose and meaning.

Rehnquist argued that both the district court and the Second Circuit had inappropriately ignored the definition of "free appropriate public education" provided in the EHA itself on the erroneous assumption that it did not adequately explain the exact meaning of appropriate and other terms.

The more popular and colorful meaning of the name (believed to be an erroneous translation) is "House of the Po".

With "intruded", we intend a meaning more general than is usually denoted by "faulty" or "erroneous".

The tradition of his religiosity probably derives from the erroneous connection by the ancients of his name with the Latin word numen, meaning divine power.

However, I relate here only to the masculinity-femininity aspect of "gender" because I focus on the misattribution of meaning to differences between males and females that results from the erroneous assumption that these differences are dimorphic and internally consistent.