adj
Meaning 1
Used for exact or precise measurement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- precision instruments
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
precision
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adj
Meaning 2
Made, or characterized by accuracy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonyms: exactitude, exactness; accuracy
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exactitude, exactness, accuracy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: strictly
Examples
- Near-synonyms: repeatability; reproducibility
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nicety, repeatability, reproducibility
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bridge, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton
- note the meticulous precision of his measurements
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: preciseness
Antonyms: imprecision
Broader terms: exactness, exactitude
History
Etymology
From Middle French precision. Equivalent to precise + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
60 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: прецизен (precizen) — used for exact or precise measurement
- Finnish: täsmä- — used for exact or precise measurement
- Finnish: tarkkuus- — used for exact or precise measurement
- Japanese: 精度 — used for exact or precise measurement
- Portuguese: de precisão — used for exact or precise measurement
- Bulgarian: точен (točen) — made, or characterized by accuracy
- Finnish: tarkkuus- — made, or characterized by accuracy
- Finnish: täsmä- — made, or characterized by accuracy
- Portuguese: de precisão — made, or characterized by accuracy
- Bulgarian: точност (točnost) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Catalan: precisió — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Chinese Mandarin: 精度 (jīngdù) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Chinese Mandarin: 準確度 /准确度 (zhǔnquèdù) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Czech: přesnost — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Dutch: precisie — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Esperanto: precizeco — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Finnish: täsmällisyys — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Finnish: tarkkuus — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- French: précision — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- West-Frisian: krektens — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- German: Präzision — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- German: Genauigkeit — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Ancient Greek: ἀκρίβεια (akríbeia) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Icelandic: nákvæmni — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Irish: cruinneas — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Japanese: 精度 (seido) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Japanese: 正確性 (seikakusei) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Mongolian: нарийвчлал (nariivčlal) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Norwegian Bokmål: presisjon — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Norwegian Nynorsk: presisjon — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Polish: dokładność — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Portuguese: precisão — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Romanian: precizie — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Romanian: exactitate — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Russian: то́чность (tóčnostʹ) — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Spanish: exactitud — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Spanish: precisión — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Swedish: exakthet — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Swedish: precision — the state of being precise or exact; exactness
- Finnish: täsmällisyys — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Finnish: tarkkuus — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- German: Präzision — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- German: Messpräzision — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- German: Wiederholgenauigkeit — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Italian: precisione — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Mongolian: нарийвчлал (nariivčlal) — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Polish: dokładność — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Portuguese: precisão — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Romanian: precizie — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Russian: то́чность (tóčnostʹ) — the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
- Bulgarian: точност (točnost) — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Finnish: tarkkuus — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Japanese: 精度 — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Mongolian: нарийвчлал (nariivčlal) — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Polish: dokładność — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Portuguese: precisão — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Russian: то́чность (tóčnostʹ) — the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
- Finnish: tarkkuus — the consistency of a number in a linear equation
- Polish: dokładność — the consistency of a number in a linear equation
- Russian: то́чность (tóčnostʹ) — the consistency of a number in a linear equation
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