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hit and miss

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I am abroad, in places where communication with the wider world has been a bit hit-and-miss.

Man does not have to follow nature's slow hit-and-miss method of developing more desirable qualities in her products.

The governors employed for the "hit-and-miss" type are either "inertia" or "centrifugal" governors.

For small motors, one of the most widely used admission devices is that of the "hit-and-miss" type.

The second form is more widely used, and is applicable to engines having "hit-and-miss" or variable admission devices.

It had all one common mark; it was all "the church," but the hit-and-miss of it, its lightning change, bewildered him.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hit and miss, such as: analysis, cut and try, examination, experiment, hit or miss, and probe.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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