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prɪˈsɪʒ ənpre·ci·sion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. preciseness, precisionnoun

    the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

    "he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note the meticulous precision of his measurements"

Wiktionary

  1. precisionnoun

    the state of being precise or exact; exactness

  2. precisionnoun

    the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently

  3. precisionnoun

    the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably

  4. precisionadjective

    used for exact or precise measurement

  5. precisionadjective

    made, or characterized by accuracy

  6. Etymology: From precision.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Precisionnoun

    Exact limitation.

    Etymology: precision, Fr.

    He that thinks of being in general, thinks never of any particular species of being; unless he can think of it with and without precision at the same time. John Locke.

    I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions in these computations as not necessary; these whole numbers shewing well enough the difference of the value of guineas. John Locke.

    I was unable to treat this part more in detail, without sacrificing perspicuity to ornament, without wandering from the precision or breaking the chain of reasoning. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. precision

    Precision refers to the level of accuracy and exactness, or the ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced. In other words, precision is how close multiple measurements of the same quantity are to each other, regardless of whether or not they are close to the actual or true value. The term is often used in various fields such as science, engineering, statistics, and industry to describe the degree to which repeated measurements or processes provide similar results.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Precisionnoun

    the quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. precision

    Exact limitation, scrupulous observance of certain given rules.

Editors Contribution

  1. precision

    Accurate and exact.

    The precision engineering company make metal tool plates for plastic components.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 17, 2020  

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'precision' in Nouns Frequency: #2712

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of precision in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of precision in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of precision in a Sentence

  1. Oliver Baete:

    It would be like a precision landing in the middle of a hurricane.

  2. Caleb Burns:

    Big data has been harnessed to draw these maps with real precision, on a block-by-block, house-by-house basis.

  3. Stanley Nelson:

    This is an example of true precision medicine. part of what we have to do is keep building that library, that encyclopedia of what gene and what gene mutations cause what symptoms.

  4. Andrew Cuomo:

    You look at the precision of the operation. It was truly extraordinary.

  5. Jen Psaki:

    There's not a day that goes by that I don't leave this podium and wish I would have said something with greater context or more precision or additional information. That day, there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing I conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests, about the 20,000 free testing sides. And should I have included that additional context in that answer ? Yes.

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