inexact science
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinexactandscience
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inexact
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.ɪɡˈzækt/us/ˌɪn.ɪɡˈzækt/
not exact or not known ...
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science
noun
uk/ˈsaɪ.əns/us/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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(Definition ofinexactandsciencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It should be noted that water analysis in the mid-nineteenth century was aninexactscience.
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The conversion of effect measures to a common metric is aninexactscience.
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We are discussing aninexactscience.
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In practice, however, preconditioning is aninexactsciencebecause different preconditioners work better for different kinds of problems.
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The household projection process is at best aninexactscience.
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Clearly estimating duty fraud is aninexactscience.
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It became apparent that this is aninexactscience.
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In many ways this is aninexactscience.
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Randomizing patients acts as a "hedge" against the need for more data, given that sample size calculation is aninexactscience.
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It was a notoriouslyinexactscienceand was often no more than an educated guess.
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That is why valuation, under the old rating system, was a mostinexactscience.
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After all, economic forecasting is a notoriouslyinexactscience, as he said in the debate yesterday.
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At the same time, we recognise that it is aninexactscience.
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I say to him that economics is a notoriouslyinexactscience.
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I have always been struck by the extent to which economics is such aninexactscience.
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By their very nature industrial relations will always be aninexactscience.
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By its very nature, quantifying fare evasion is aninexactscience.
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Did not last summer's crisis demonstrate that exam marking is a somewhatinexactscience?
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We are not even in the realm of psephology, which is aninexactscience.
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We are talking about aninexactscience, if that is the right expression to use.
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Of course, intelligence is aninexactscience, as has been said many times in recent weeks.
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There is a twin problem because, by its nature, traffic forecasting is aninexactscience.
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Scouting and drafting will always be aninexactscience/art.
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It is a veryinexactscienceat the moment because it necessarily depends on so many arbitrary assumptions and apportionments.
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The truth is that the whole business of deficits or surpluses in the budget is an extremelyinexactscience.
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