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precision

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 11.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
  2. noun The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
    The classic example of the difference between precision and accuracy is that in target practice, if the grouping is tight but the group is off-center, your precision is good but your accuracy needs calibration.
  3. noun The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
  4. noun A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
  5. adjective Used for exact or precise measurement.
    precision instruments
  6. adjective Made, or characterized by accuracy.

Similar words

preciseness precise precisely accurately accuracy accurate particularity specific specificity thoroughness

Often followed by

of and in is the to with that as

Word family

precise precisely precisionism precisionist precisionists precisions

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