Meaning & use
Inaccuracy
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A mistake or error; the state of not being correct or precise.
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The editor found several inaccuracies in the article's statistics.
He apologized for the inaccuracy in his earlier report.
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It can describe both a single factual error and, more broadly, a general lack of precision, as in 'the inaccuracy of the old maps.'
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