Sentence examples for inconsistent meaning from inspiring English sources

The stem weights were inconsistent, meaning the font looked bolder in some letters and lighter in others, and the baseline levels of the letters were uneven, giving it a wobbly, slightly boozy look.

But there isn't an easy way to increase the country's hydropower capacity, and drought, caused by climate change, has made the system inconsistent, meaning that Ghana will have to look elsewhere for electricity.

We will consider el-el measurements to be inconsistent (meaning no valid direction of arrival can be found) if 1 < cos2 + cos2.

It was evident that the availability of informal social support networks was inconsistent, meaning that friends and family members were not consistently available, either time-wise or geographically, to provide support.

— Los Angeles Times (2009) As evidenced by the above headline, some have criticized grading as subjective and inconsistent, meaning that the same student could receive drastically different grades for the same work, depending on who is grading the work and when it is graded.

The only effect that was replicable is that of feedback inconsistency reported by Stone, Vanhoy, and Van Orden (1997, Experiment 2): Participants needed more time to accept a word that is feedback inconsistent, meaning that its pronunciation body can be spelled in more than one way (for instance, the rime of a syllable with the sound /ip/ can be spelled – eep, as in deep or – eap, as in heap).

Inconsistent meanings can be singled out and studied by means of (reflection upon) corresponding experiences of intuitive conflict, like for instance the discrete switching back and forth between a duck-head-imagination and a rabbit-head-imagination in the case of an attempted intuitive imagination of a duck-head that is at the same time a rabbit-head.

Although there is no evidence showing the constructs used in the present study contain inconsistent meanings across different cultures, the previous literature indicates that some well-established concepts in Western culture are perceived in another way in China (e.g., Cheung et al., 2001; Wang, 2007).

Participants were also not provided with a definition of the term "sex," an omission that introduces further ambiguity into our findings by requiring participants to supply their own, inconsistent, meanings for the term.

As suggested for the term 'strain', we would postulate that 'functional' is not well defined and is used with various ambiguous and inconsistent meanings.

Alaska said it acted after finding that a measurement tool made by the airline to monitor wear on the tail part had produced inconsistent readings, meaning that it might have failed to detect unacceptable wear in a control mechanism called a jackscrew.