"imprecise definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever a definition is not exact or clear. For example, "The imprecise definition of a 'small town' makes it hard to determine which places actually qualify."
The problem isn't an imprecise definition of "objectivity".
[ 28 ] See Nat Stern, In Defense of the Imprecise Definition of Commercial Speech, 58 MD.
At a World Health Organization meeting in 1983, participants said that because an AIDS diagnosis was based on an imprecise definition, the reported cases probably represented the most lethal forms of the disease and that it might not be universally fatal.
The contribution of such uncertainty factors, like imprecise definition of seismic activity А10, incorrect choice of prevailing type of a motion in the source, using regional laws of attenuation of seismic load intensity in distance instead of local once are substantially small.
And most institutions in the business of keeping a chronology of economic cyclical activity use a similarly intuitive yet entirely mathematically imprecise definition of recession.
However, the debate turns out to be largely a consequence of imprecise definition and consequent misunderstanding of key concepts (e.g., Graham et al. 2004; Fitzpatrick et al. 2008), rather than true conflict of ideas, as has been made clear by recent insights (Warren et al. 2008) and an extensive literature review (Peterson 2011).
The truth, buried in imprecise definitions, misunderstandings and duplicity, remains elusive.
1. Regarding peak oil, there is (in general) great confusion about the topic, which is aided by the use of imprecise definitions by various groups.
In spite of this importance, existing knowledge concerning model uncertainties and their characteristics seems to suffer from imprecise definitions and lack of available experimental data.
NAT is a classic argument in organizational sociology although it has been criticized as having imprecise definitions and lacking criteria for quantifying complexity.
Autor et al. noted that the Dictionary of Occupational Titles "includes a limited sampling of occupations (partly in the service sector), imprecise definitions of measured constructs, and omission of important skills" (2003, p. 1293).
