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Answer for the clue "With precision ", 9 letters:
clocklike
Word definitions for clocklike in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clocklike \Clock"like`\ (kl[o^]k"l[imac]k`), a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Backward and forward at their lord's command. --B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Resembling a clock or some aspect of one.
Usage examples of clocklike.
We have had it our way, relatively speaking, being unique all these years, and it will be hard to deal with the thought that the whole, infinitely huge, spinning, clocklike apparatus around us is itself animate, and can sprout life whenever the conditions are right.
It was a tiny matter, one hardly worthy of note, but in a society where the single driving force was order and unity and equality and promptness and clocklike precision and attention to the clock, reverence of the gods of the passage of time, it was a disaster of major importance.
With clocklike precision the SGRCP began fanning out at the double, forming a line that faced south as it stretched east and west across the north-south highway.
An inside job carried out with clocklike precision at a set rendezvous by the gangs of human scum who were the present tenants of the home of that sardonic and ancient beast, the Skal.
Each time a stone from the ballista struck the wall there was a shout, but there was nothing spontaneous in the demonstration, which seemed as perfunctory as the mechanical operation of the ancient war-engine that delivered its missiles with almost clocklike regularity.
Cubes, arches, horizontals of steps, vertical balustrades, curves of domed churches, cylindrical windmills each with twelve triangular sails in clocklike precision.
They wheeled and formed and charged and reformed with clocklike precision.
See his easy hands loving the wheel in a slow clocklike turning as soft and silent as winter constellations snow down the sky.
Frustration levels among the crew waxed and waned with clocklike regularity, leading Caldaq to believe a psychologist should have been appointed captain rather than a fighter.
It was a tiny matter, one hardly worthy of note, but in a society where the single driving force was order and unity and promptness and clocklike precision and attention to the clock, reverence of the gods of the passage of time, it was a disaster of major importance.
She stroked with clocklike regularity, taking deep, even bites of the lake.
Next to the table was a scale with a steel tray hanging underneath its clocklike face.
Their various sections were arranged according to an order determined by tradition, so that, for instance, with clocklike regularity, suites always ended with a last dance, and so on.
He took the instrument in his big hand and watched the clocklike face intently.
It came from an odd-shaped, clocklike instrument that rested on a large recording phonograph.