Sentence examples for imprecise sense from inspiring English sources

In some (rather imprecise) sense, string theory replaces the particles that form the fundamental building blocks for conventional theories (the fields, or wave phenomena, we observe are obtained starting from particles when we apply the principles of quantum mechanics) with objects that are not point-like but extended in one dimension – strings.

Penrose's arguments depend crucially on ambiguities between precise and imprecise senses of key terms.

This situation might lead to imprecise sensing and various other off-target effects.

Nonetheless, the intent is to generate, although imprecise, a sense of the magnitude of avoidable conditions relative to unavoidable conditions that, informally, 'could have happened to nearly anybody and was an unavoidable accident'.

Due to the intrinsic process complexities and limitations in our understanding (present in all natural hazards domains), volcano forecasting assessments are inevitably imprecise and a sense of vagueness can be communicated through the use of confidence ranges.

Even if it's imprecise, it gives a sense of the magnitude of the problem.

We cope with the fuzziness of imprecise metrics in the sense that this approach deals with linguistically expressed preferences and cloud service characteristics that lack a fixed or precise value and entail a level of vagueness which can only be captured using the Zadeh's Fuzzy Set Theory.

That's imprecise; the Oxford English Dictionary defines its primary sense as "the high water wave caused by the movement of the tide," noting that the common belief that it was a huge wave caused by an earthquake was mistaken.

Though the distance between two cities is normally fixed, the time to travel from a city to another is always imprecise in nature in the fuzzy sense.

The analogy is imprecise because politics, in the strict sense of legislative science, is a form of practical knowledge, while a craft like architecture or medicine is a form of productive knowledge.

However, Turi criticized Sonic's "odd sense of momentum" and imprecise jumps, stating that switching between two speeds is "jarring" and produces "touchy platforming".