Exactitude Sentence Examples

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  • At such moments of crisis it almost excelled human comprehension; the mind seems to have gathered to itself and summed up the balance of all human passions arranged for and against him, and to have calculated with unerring exactitude the consequences of each decision.

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  • If now the image be sufficiently sharp, inasmuch as the rays proceeding from every object point meet in an image point of satisfactory exactitude, it may happen that the image is distorted, i.e.

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  • To keep up this degree of exactitude the magnification of the objective must be carefully ascertained, e.g.

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  • The north-western border of these elevated plains cannot be determined with exactitude.

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  • The composition of the alloys thus produced could not be predetermined with exactitude; each batch was therefore analysed, a number of them were bulked together or mixed with copper in I.

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  • He was a consummate artist in verse, and his impressions are given with the most delicate exactitude of phrase, and in a very fine strain of imagination.

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  • How the stars really move in space, and how the sun travels among them, can be ascertained only with the aid of materials collected by the spectrograph, which has now fortunately been brought to comply with the arduous conditions of exactitude requisite for collaboration with the transit instrument and its allies, the clock and chronograph.

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  • This process has a metaphysical goal, a mystical approach, even a scientific exactitude.

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  • The process of demarcation [15] has in fact become one of expert labor and painstaking exactitude.

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  • In doing so they carried out with great exactitude the principle of dualism, establishing in form a complete parity between Hungary on one side and the other territories of the king on the other.

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  • The final end, a complete collection of folksongs gathered with scholarly exactitude is still far away.

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  • Such experiments - and numerous ones of about this degree of accuracy have been made on a variety of substances - give a high degree of probability to the law, but leave it an open question whether it has the exactitude of the law of the conservation of matter, or whether it is only approximately true.

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  • The finest pottery, often painted but all hand-made without the wheel, belongs to the prehistoric period; so also do the finest flint implements, which, in the delicacy and exactitude of their form and flaking, surpass all that is known from other countries.

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  • As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of exactitude.

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  • The hussar at that moment noticed the face of the red-nosed captain and his drawn-in stomach, and mimicked his expression and pose with such exactitude that Nesvitski could not help laughing.

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  • It is not customary for a Virgo, who is primarily concerned with productivity and exactitude, to spend great amounts of time mulling over the nature of such conflicts.

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  • Any exactitude attaching to the conclusions of geometrical reasoning arises from the comparative simplicity of the data for the primary judgments.

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  • Not long ago the supposed meaning of these was extracted chiefly by brilliant guessing, and the published translations of even the best scholars could carry no guarantee of more than approximate exactitude, where the sense depended at all on correct recognition of the syntax.

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  • It is not possible to determine with exactitude the precise function discharged by each part of the wing, but experiment tends to show that the tip of the wing elevates, the posterior margin propels, and the root sustains.

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  • He was not a financier of genius; but he administered the public moneys with the same probity and exactitude which he used in managing his own, retrieving alienated property, straightening accounts, balancing expenditure and receipts, and amassing a reserve in the Bastille.

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  • This was not an audience which knew exactly what it wanted and certainly not an audience that obviously wanted exactitude.

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  • That doesn't prevent his chief trait being verbal exactitude.

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  • In this standardization, one of the hallmarks of civilization, mathematical exactitude and specialized skill go hand in hand.

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