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precision

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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" [syn: preciseness ] [ant: impreciseness , impreciseness ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer science , the precision of a numerical quantity is a measure of the detail in which the quantity is expressed. This is usually measured in bits, but sometimes in decimal digits. It is related to precision in mathematics , which describes the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES With surgical precision ▪ With surgical precision he cut four inches off the legs of the jeans. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ Everything had to be worked out with great precision . ▪ The greater the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Used for exact or precise measurement. 2 Made, or characterized by accuracy. n. 1 The state of being precise or exact; exactness. 2 The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently. 3 (context mathematics English) The number of significant ...

Usage examples of precision.

Gilwyn looked up at the moon, which was amazingly bright on his face, and wondered at the precision of the heavens.

With strange precision, the autogiro seemed to follow that path until it reached a new angle of vision.

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And after that, I figured Bakhtiars Precision Burins had moved ahead of it on my list if Persian magic was involved in the Thomas Brothers fire.

Watching his fingertip move with such precision over her flesh, Marcie moaned.

A plain but well-made and highly polished wooden table served as a desk, and pens, inks and various writing tablets were laid out on it with meticulous precision.

Everything was manicured, managed, perfect, the strangely shaped trees not seeming to have so much as a leaf out of place, the amber-colored grass seemingly mown with micrometric precision.

The buildings lining the street were scorched and half-destroyed from the desperate magic that wizards had flung into battle without regard to misfires or precision.

As a practical guide in determining the genuineness of a work, the monogram, from the skill and precision with which fraudulent dealers have learned to counterfeit it in almost all its varieties, has long been far worse than equivocal, and the authorship of a picture must, now-a-days, often be decided on entirely independent grounds.

The Mortmain was tiring, no longer fighting with his usual cold precision.

Following the example of one of his comrades of Medan, being readily carried away by precision of style and the rhythm of sentences, by the imperious rule of the ballad, of the pantoum or the chant royal, Maupassant also desired to write in metrical lines.

Carefully, with gentle precision, he shoulders aside the heavy double doors and guides the panzer into the concrete-walled barn.

But these three cosmologies resemble with an awkward, almost embarrassing precision the human perinatal experiences of Grofs Stages 1,2, and 3 plus 4, respectively.

It seems to me very important that the statute laws should be made as plain and intelligible as possible, and be reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the fullness and precision of the will of the Legislature and the perspicuity of its language.

His lordship distinguished with great propriety and precision, between a step which had been precipitately taken in a violent crisis, when the public was heated with apprehension and resentment, and a solemn law concerted at leisure, during the most profound tranquility.