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PRECISION
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
Example:
note the meticulous precision of his measurements
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("precision" is a kind of...):
exactitude; exactness (the quality of being exact)
Antonym:
imprecision (the quality of lacking precision)
Context examples:
A new high-precision feeding system for lab mice reinforces the idea that the time of day food is eaten is more critical to weight loss than the amount of calories ingested.
(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
For years, scientists have studied the effects of different types of exercise on the human body, but never before at this level of molecular precision.
(Molecular Response of Muscle to Different Types of Exercise Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
CARMENES is the first high-precision spectrometer in operation that is designed specifically to find planets using this ‘red dwarf advantage‘.
(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)
By combining the different types of data, they were able to map the bed topography along Greenland's margins with unprecedented precision and detail.
(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)
My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A mass spectrometry technique used to increase the precision and accuracy of chemical analysis.
(Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
Marianne's preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, styled Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal enquiries.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The computer-vision technique crunched data from hundreds of thousands of NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat satellite images to produce a high-precision picture of changes in ice-sheet motion.
(New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus, NASA)
I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Her husband was really deserving of her; independent of his peerage, his wealth, and his attachment, being to a precision the most charming young man in the world.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
