The difference between Imperfect and Inexact
When used as adjectives, imperfect means not perfect, whereas inexact means imperfectly conforming.
Imperfect is also noun with the meaning: something having a minor flaw.
Imperfect is also verb with the meaning: to make imperfect.
check bellow for the other definitions of Imperfect and Inexact
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Imperfect as an adjective:
not perfect
Examples:
"synonyms: defective fallible faultful"
"ant faultless infallible perfect"
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Imperfect as an adjective (botany):
unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
Examples:
"ant perfect"
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Imperfect as an adjective (taxonomy):
known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
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Imperfect as an adjective (obsolete):
lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
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Imperfect as an adjective (grammar):
belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
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Imperfect as a noun:
something having a minor flaw
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Imperfect as a noun (grammar):
a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous
Examples:
"synonyms: preterimperfect"
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Imperfect as a verb (transitive):
to make imperfect
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Inexact as an adjective:
Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
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Inexact as an adjective:
Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated
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Inexact as an adjective (physics, of a differential):
having a path-dependent integral