Crossword clues for precision
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 utmost precisions of fractions.
--Locke.
Syn: Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety.
Usage: Precision, Preciseness. Precision is always used in a good sense; as, precision of thought or language; precision in military evolutions. Preciseness is sometimes applied to persons or their conduct in a disparaging sense, and precise is often used in the same way.
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 1740.
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 digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
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
- Accuracy and precision, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter
- Significant figures, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement
- Precision and recall, in information retrieval: the percentage of relevant documents returned
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Precision (computer science), a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed
- Arbitrary-precision arithmetic, methods for computing with big numbers
- Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision
- Precision planning, a statistical tool used in estimation statistics
- Precision agriculture, an agricultural concept
- Precision engineering, an architectural concept
- Precision Air, an airline based in Tanzania
- Precision Castparts Corp., a casting company based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States
- Precision Drilling, the largest drilling-rig contractor in Canada
- Precision Monolithics, an American company that produced linear semiconductors
- Precision Talent, a voice-over talent-management company
- Precise Software, a transaction performance management company
- Dell Precision, a line of Dell workstations
- Precision Architecture, former name for PA-RISC, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
- Precise Pangolin (or "Precise"), the codename for the 2012 stable release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system
- Precision Club, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge
- Precision (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada
- Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy
- Precision bombing, used for military purposes
- Fender Precision Bass, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
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 number of digits that are used to express a value.
Precision is the authorized march of Royal Military College of Canada. The RMC band performs Precision on parades for march pasts, on Ex Cadet Weekends for the parade to the Memorial Arch, and on the return, the Cadet Wing sings Tom Gelley’s words to welcome the Ex Cadets to the Parade Square.
In general, statisticians prefer to use the dual term variability rather than precision. Variability is the amount of imprecision.
Common statistical usage defines precision as the reciprocal of the variance, and the precision matrix as the matrix inverse of the covariance matrix. Some particular statistical models define the term precision differently.
One particular use of the precision matrix is in the context of Bayesian analysis of the multivariate normal distribution: for example, Bernardo & Smith prefer to parameterise the multivariate normal distribution in terms of the precision matrix, rather than the covariance matrix, because of certain simplifications that then arise.
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.