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The gap between what you meant and what you actually said, give or take.

means A lack of exactness or accuracy, where measurements, words, or aims land somewhere in the neighborhood rather than on the mark.

from From Latin imprecisus, built from in- (not) plus praecisus (cut short, trimmed), via praecidere, to cut off in frontprecision is a clean cut, imprecision a ragged one.

Science splitPrecision means consistency; accuracy means correctness — not synonyms.
Engineered inTolerances deliberately allow imprecision so parts actually fit.
StatisticsQuantified as variance, error bars, and confidence intervals.
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