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improper

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Adjective

  1. Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
  2. Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest.
  3. Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous.
  4. Not consistent with established facts; incorrect.
  5. Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction.
  6. Not specific or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
  7. Of a complex random variable, correlated with its conjugate.

Verb

  1. To appropriate; to assign (something, to someone) as a possession or prerogative.

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