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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French precision.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/, [pɹɪˈsɪʒ.n̩]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪʒən
Noun
[edit]precision (countable and uncountable, plural precisions)
- (broadly) The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
- Near-synonyms: exactitude, exactness; accuracy
- (strictly) The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
- Coordinate term: accuracy (independent property)
- 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.
- (mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
- (bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the state of being precise or exact; exactness
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the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently
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the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably
the consistency of a number in a linear equation
See also
[edit]Adjective
[edit]precision (not comparable)
- Used for exact or precise measurement.
- Made, or characterized by accuracy.
- 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.
Translations
[edit]used for exact or precise measurement
made, or characterized by accuracy
References
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Anagrams
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First known attestation 1380, borrowed from Latin praecisiō.[1]
Noun
[edit]precision f (plural precisions)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “precision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]precision c
- precision (preciseness)
- precision (of an instrument)
- (mathematics) precision
Declension
[edit]Declension of precision
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | precision | precisions |
| definite | precisionen | precisionens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — | |
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