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precision

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In general, statisticians prefer to use the dual term variability rather than precision . Variability is the amount of im precision. Common statistical usage defines precision as the reciprocal of the variance , and the precision matrix as the matrix inverse ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "a cutting off (mentally), abstraction," from French précision (16c.) and directly from Latin praecisionem (nominative praecisio ) "a cutting off," noun of action from past participle stem of praecidere (see precise ). Meaning "preciseness" is from ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precision \Pre*ci"sion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]cision, L. praecisio a cutting off. See Precise .] The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the ...

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.