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Example sentences for "more exact"

  • From this comes the illusion that the artist imitates nature; when it would perhaps be more exact to say that nature imitates the artist, and obeys him.

  • Ethic and Economic cannot but be gainers, as we have said of Logic and Aesthetic, by a more exact determination of the relations that exist between them.

  • The lethal dose of the pure alkaloid being even approximately settled, it is possible to get a more exact idea as to the suitable medicinal dose of the tincture and extract, and also to study more profitably the "quantitative toxicity.

  • Koppeschaar's volumetric method= is more exact, but also more elaborate, than the one just described.

  • In showing what is required for a certain conclusion, it puts us on the road to a more exact estimate of the premisses alleged, a sounder judgment of their worth.

  • Venn here desiderates, as he has himself suggested, is a more exact measurement of the Modality of propositions.

  • Diurnal is more exact in all its uses; a diurnal flower opens or blooms only in daylight; a diurnal bird or animal flies or ranges only by day: in contradistinction to nocturnal flowers, birds, etc.

  • Skill is more exact to line, rule, and method than dexterity.

  • He lacked its calm, or, to be more exact, his restless, perpetually producing imaginative mind never enjoyed the calm which is a condition of culture.

  • And really Cato's definition is not a more exact description of a true orator than Seneclo's is of the character of this man.

  • The state of science at the time of Rumford's and Davy's experiments did not admit of a more exact generalization.

  • Having established the general notions of a perfect cycle, he proceeds to give a more exact illustration, employing a gas as the working substance.

  • More exact researches, especially those of Regnault, at a later date, showed that the law was very nearly correct for all permanent gases, but that the value of the coefficient should be 1/273rd.

  • False ideas of the connection between phenomena arise through defective observation of them, and will be rectified by a more exact observation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more acceptable; more adequate; more appropriate; more characteristic; more considerable; more easily; more economical; more effective; more elevated; more formal; more high; more intimate; more literally; more necessary; more persons; more power; more proper; more seen; more severe; more strongly; more things; more time; more times; more truly; more will; tropical cyclones