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  1. adjective Clearly expressed or delineated; definite: The victim gave a precise description of the suspect.
  2. adjective Exact, as in performance, execution, or amount; accurate or correct: a precise measurement; a precise instrument.
  3. adjective Strictly distinguished from others; very: at that precise moment.

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  • Nothing could be more precise, allowing of course for the changes, demolitions, re-buildings, &c.;, of sixty years What became of Mr. Peter Magnus and his lady? —  Pickwickian Studies
  • Of course, I did not ask any further questions, as it was clear he did not care about naming the precise locality, or he would not have given so vague an answer. —  A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
  • The crew once got together, Shandon and his two officers set about the provisions; they strictly followed the instructions of the captain; these instructions were clear, precise, and detailed, and the least articles were put down with their quality and quantity. —  The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
  • It is a perception of this truth, we believe, which leads practical men always to suspect plans supported by statistics too exquisitely conclusive It was on precisely such a specious basis of definite misinformation that General McClellan's next proposal for the campaign by way of the Peninsula rested,--precise facts before he sets out turning to something like precise no-facts when he gets there,--beautiful completeness of conception ending in hesitation, confusion, and failure. —  The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
  • So precise, are our Magnitudes, that one Line is no broader then an other: for they haue no bredth: Nor our Plaines haue any thicknes. —  The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
 

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  1. Middle English, exact, from Old French precis, condensed, precisely fixed, from Latin praecīsus, past participle of praecīdere, to shorten : prae-, pre- + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English * precis (in adverb *precisly, percysly), from Old French precis, masculine, precise, feminine, French precis = Spanish Portuguese Italian preciso, cut off, definite, precise, strict, from Latin præcisus, cut short, shortened, brief, past participle of præcidere, cut off in front, cut short, abridge, from præ, before, + cædere, cut. Cf. concise.
  2. from precise, adjective
 

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