'Precision' definitions:
Definition of 'precision'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being reproducible in amount or performance; "he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note the meticulous precision of his measurements" [syn: preciseness, precision] [ant: impreciseness, imprecision]
Definition of 'Precision'
From: GCIDE
- Precision \Pre*ci"sion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]cision, L. praecisio a cutting off. See Precise.] The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. [1913 Webster]
- I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety.
- Usage: Precision, Preciseness. Precision is always used in a good sense; as, precision of thought or language; precision in military evolutions. Preciseness is sometimes applied to persons or their conduct in a disparaging sense, and precise is often used in the same way. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'precision'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absoluteness,
- accuracy,
- allocation,
- assignment,
- attention,
- attention to detail,
- attention to fact,
- attribution,
- care,
- care for truth,
- carefulness,
- censoriousness,
- choosiness,
- circumstantiality,
- conscientiousness,
- correctness,
- criticality,
- criticalness,
- definiteness,
- delicacy,
- denomination,
- designation,
- detail,
- determination,
- discriminatingness,
- discrimination,
- discriminativeness,
- exactingness,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- explicitness,
- exquisiteness,
- faithfulness,
- fastidiousness,
- faultlessness,
- fidelity,
- fineness,
- finicality,
- finicalness,
- finickiness,
- finickingness,
- fixing,
- flawlessness,
- fussiness,
- heed,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- mathematical precision,
- meticulousness,
- minuteness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- particularity,
- particularness,
- perfection,
- perfectionism,
- pinning down,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- priggishness,
- prudishness,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- punctuality,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- refinement,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorousness,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- selection,
- selectiveness,
- selectivity,
- sensitivity,
- severity,
- signification,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- strictness,
- subtlety,
- taste,
- textualism,
- the letter,
- unambiguousness,
- unerringness