What is "precisely"

Usage examples of "precisely".

Excession, the Affront are just the sort of species - and at precisely the most likely stage in their development - to attempt some sort of mad undertaking which, however likely to fail, if it did succeed might offer rewards justifying the risk.

She stood quietly in the semi-darkness, illuminated by the glow of dozens of precisely imaged, hovering galaxies, watching and listening as the two most intelligent beings she had ever met in her life conversed in a steady hum of words, whistles, and clicks with an oversized insectoid who gleamed like an ambulatory topaz and smelled of orchids and vanilla.

Kundera resorts to ellipsis precisely in order to preserve the architectonic lightness and balance of such narrative and discursive complexity.

But the assessor who assesses the timber as part of the real estate and assesses the same crop of timber year after year does precisely this thing.

It was precisely their foreign, un-Muscovite spirit that attracted the young boyars and scribes to these stories.

First the hills were a little bit below, then they came gently up on all sides as the Witch, on autopilot, straightened out her slow descent to come down precisely on her tail.

The hypsometer and barometer, however, were not to be deceived, and both fell in precisely the same degree as they had risen before.

We agreed that I would remain precisely where I am until the barouche can be set on its way.

Soon as the Depaato beautician staff got to work, the minute they brought out the wig she was to wear, dyed and styled precisely, she knew.

Upon further analysis, a weekly dose of specified minerals matching precisely those found in the benthos were prescribed, and sure enough the spells soon went away.

In short, I may not be telling it right and perhaps cannot, but the sense of the blather was precisely of that sort.

He supposed he could offer them the cottage Bourreau had been using, but it was deserted precisely because it was falling down.

More and more she was convinced that the whole Pell operation was busywork, that Mazian might be doing precisely what she had advised all along, keeping the troops busy, keeping even his crews and captains busy, while the real operation here was that on Downbelow and what he proposed with the mines and short-haulers, the gathering of supplies, the repairs, the sorting of station personnel for identification and capture of all those fugitives who might surface and make takeover easy and cheap for Union.

The British pathologist, Sir Gordon Roy Cameron, who conducted one of these endeavors, a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, later knighted for his contributions to the field, observed that the 1947 study had employed formalin as a fixative agent for the tissues, which is not suitable for cytological studies on account of its tendency to produce artifacts of precisely the kind that had been identified as hyperplasia nodules.

Bothan Ver said, hauling in the mainsheet, nail-bitten fingers directing the rope precisely, delicately, like a puppeteer pulling on the strings of his marionette.