Precision
[prɪ'sɪʒ(ə)n] or [prɪ'sɪʒn]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Exactness, preciseness, accuracy, nicety, correctness, truth.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exactness, nicety, preciseness, accuracy,[See ACCURACY]
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Examples
- Mrs. Farebrother welcomed the guest with a lively formality and precision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Cannon were made of all sizes and calibres, but were not arranged in battle with much precision. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The practical experiments of horticulturists, though not made with scientific precision, deserve some notice. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- To teach you to speak and write correctly, so that you can be understood, said Mrs. Garth, with severe precision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That is satisfactory so far as Mr. Lydgate is concerned, Camden, said the old lady, with an air of precision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There was a severe precision in Mrs. Garth's utterance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In this same epoch apparatus of precision developed in other fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- About 1639 Gascoigne, a young Englishman, invented the micrometer, which enables an observer to adjust a telescope with very great precision. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thus speaking, Mr. Weller fixed his hat on his head with great precision, and abruptly left the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The imperfection, or rather the higher and more elastic nature of language, does not allow words to have the precision of numbers or of symbols. Plato. The Republic.
- Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In point of perspicuity, precision, and distinctness, therefore, the duties of customs are much inferior to those of excise. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It had a precision of action that resulted in a much greater regularity in the spun thread than by the earlier process. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The first thing the astronomers did was to determine with precision their exact locality upon the earth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Where the one began, and the other ended, nobody could have told with any precision. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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