precise

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 19.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Both exact and accurate.

   precise definition

2. adjective Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other .
3. adjective Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.
4. verb To make or render precise; to specify.

Similar words

exact accurate very meticulous punctilious skillful right fine hairsplitting nice

Often followed by

and nature definition meaning moment information in time than

Word family

precisely preciseness precisenesses preciser precisest precision