Log in or Sign up
  1. precision love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The state or quality of being precise; exactness.
  2. n. The ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced.
  3. n. The number of significant digits to which a value has been reliably measured.
  4. adj. Used or intended for accurate or exact measurement: a precision tool.
  5. adj. Made so as to vary minimally from a set standard: precision components.
  6. adj. Of or characterized by accurate action: precision bombing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality or state of being precise, exact, or definite as to form or meaning; distinctness; accuracy.
  2. n. In logic: Freedom from inessential elements.
  3. n. The separation from anything of extrinsic elements. [In this sense, probably introduced into Latin by Scotus, precision appears to be the abstract noun corresponding to the verb prescind, and is occasionally spelled prescision.]

Wiktionary

  1. n. the state of being precise or exact; exactness
  2. n. the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
  3. n. mathematics the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
  4. adj. used for exact or precise measurement
  5. adj. made, or characterized by accuracy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French precision. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin praecīsiō, praecīsiōn-, a cutting off, from praecīsus, past participle of praecīdere, to cut off; see precise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Using Attributional Similarity to Solve Analogies  number of correct guesses precision = total number of guesses made  number of correct guesses recall = maximum possible number correct 2 x precision x recall  F = precision recall”

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows

  • “The term precision is considered as a component of accuracy, related to the scale, resolution, and also to the generalization of datasets.”

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows

  • “Details very sketchy at this hour but U.S. officials confirming overnight there was what they call a precision missile strike against a target in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, a target that they say was in an area where there were known terrorists, al Qaeda terrorists with affiliations.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2008

  • “Now, earlier today, the U.S. military launched what it calls a precision air strike.”

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2004

  • “The 53-second clip provides a rare look at how the U.S. uses what it calls precision air strikes in urban areas to support ground operations.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2004

  • “If you remember in the Gulf War, about 10 percent of our munitions were what we call precision-guided munitions; in Operations Allied Force about 90 percent of our munitions were guided munitions.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2001

  • “The cost to produce the bug, which he characterized as precision handwork within the knowledge and competence of a handful of men, he estimated at $30,000 per unit.”

    Will

  • “AlCuMet makes what it calls precision castings out of aluminum and other alloys for the military, aerospace and other industries.”

    WCAX - Local News

  • “Our new foreign policy is what I call precision power.”

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

  • “We've seen a dramatic increase in precision guided weapons, air power over raw infantry (remember Kosovo was fought almost by nothing other than NATO air power), intelligence gathering (remember right wingers attacked Clinton throughout the 90's for supposedly trying to infringe on civil liberties ... some like Phil Gramm & George Bush even accused Clinton of racial profiling of Arabs & Chinese).”

    Did the Bush Tax Cut Fail?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. preciseness
  1. nicety
  1. exactness
  1. accuracy
  1. definiteness

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. exactness
  1. exactitude

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. accuracy
  2. clearness
  3. regularity
  1. simplicity
  2. rapidity
  3. elegance
  1. certainty
  2. thoroughness
  3. exactness
  1. firmness
  2. vigor
  3. neatness
  1. ease
  2. perfection
  3. intensity
  1. fidelity
  2. intelligence
  3. tact

rhymes (17)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Parisian
  2. circumcision
  3. collision
  1. decision
  2. derision
  3. division
  1. envision
  2. excision
  3. incision
  1. indecision
  2. misprision
  3. provision
  1. recision
  2. rescission
  3. revision
  1. supervision
  2. vision

reverse dictionary (112)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. precisionize
  2. nice
  3. purity
  4. exactness
  5. distinctness
  6. imprecision
  7. definitely
  8. definiteness
  9. acribia
  10. oralist
  11. reading-microscope
  12. preciseness
  13. ground-controlled approach
  14. underflow
  15. veracity
  16. buteoninæ
  17. definitude
  18. ductilimeter
  19. indefinitely
  20. indefinitude
  21. indeterminately
  22. indeterminateness
  1. inexactly
  2. inexactness
  3. planometer
  4. elegance
  5. precisionist
  6. excruciating
  7. sculptor
  8. fluffy
  9. shoran
  10. sculpt
  11. vernier
  12. Zouave
  13. accuracy
  14. accurateness
  15. clock
  16. constant
  17. define
  18. definition
  19. accurately
  20. white room
  21. clean room
  22. cruise missile
  1. clockwork
  2. touch
  3. fit
  4. sloppy
  5. precisional
  6. pernickety
  7. persnickety
  8. purist
  9. sharpshoot
  10. surgical
  11. accurate
  12. ballet
  13. clip
  14. pinpoint
  15. delicacy
  16. fine
  17. precision
  18. rude
  19. lapidary
  20. indeterminate
  21. GCA
  22. imponderable
  1. impreciseness
  2. like clockwork
  3. mathematical
  4. microscopically
  5. microsurgery
  6. minuteness
  7. snipe
  8. analytical balance
  9. cad
  10. chemical balance
  11. clearcutness
  12. computer-aided design
  13. meticulous
  14. nicety
  15. scrupulosity
  16. sharpshooting
  17. slide rule
  18. true
  19. ascertain
  20. assignable
  21. correctness
  22. definite
  1. dexterity
  2. Egyptian
  3. evener
  4. exact
  5. foppery
  6. foretell
  7. integrant
  8. justice
  9. liquidate
  10. loose
  11. loosely
  12. perfectly
  13. pleading
  14. precisive
  15. roughly
  16. sclerometer
  17. semilunar
  18. color-blindness
  19. -ite
  20. mechanics
  21. thread
  22. type
  1. whither
  2. will

tagging (1)

Words tagged ‘precision’

  1. pedantic

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘precision’.

More lists containing ‘precision’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • oroboros Here's an example of precision for you:

    Consider telescope mirrors:

    "Both mirrors for telescopes on the 'big island' of Hawaii are light-years beyond everyday concepts of precision. Ground and polished for four years...the Subaru mirror surface has been smoothed to within about half a millionth of an inch. The surface of Gemini...is precise to within a thousandth of the diameter of a human hair. To make such perfection easier to imagine, if the Big Island could be leveled and polished as evenly (in proportion) as the Subaru mirror, the biggest bump would be no higher than the thickness of two sheets of paper. If the entire earth could be smoothed to the same accuracy as Gemini, the tallest hill would be less than a foot high."

    --Howard Daniel, Pen4Rent Aug 29, 2007

Tweets

Looking for tweets for precision.

‘precision’ has been looked up 2521 times, loved by 3 people, added to 26 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 13.