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Precision

Precision Meaning & Definition
Precision Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Precision?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Precision: preciseness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Precision: absoluteness | accuracy | allocation | assignment | attention | attention to detail | attention to fact | attribution | care | care for truth | carefulness | censoriousness | choosiness | circumstantiality | conscientiousness | correctness | criticality | criticalness | definiteness | delicacy | denomination | designation | detail | determination | discriminatingness | discrimination | discriminativeness | exactingness | exactitude | exactness | explicitness | exquisiteness | faithfulness | fastidiousness | faultlessness | fidelity | fineness | finicality | finicalness | finickiness | finickingness | fixing | flawlessness | fussiness | heed | literalism | literality | literalness | mathematical precision | meticulousness | minuteness | niceness | nicety | particularity | particularness | perfection | perfectionism | pinning down | preciseness | precisianism | priggishness | prudishness | punctilio | punctiliousness | punctuality | purism | puritanism | refinement | right | rightness | rigidity | rigidness | rigor | rigorousness | scrupulosity | scrupulousness | selection | selectiveness | selectivity | sensitivity | severity | signification | specification | stipulation | strictness | subtlety | taste | textualism | the letter | unambiguousness | unerringness

See Also | exactitude | exactness

Precision In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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