- the quality of being exact, accurate and careful synonym accuracy
- Her writing is imaginative but lacks precision.
- with precision He chose his words with precision.
- done with mathematical precision
- Historians can’t estimate the date with any (degree of) precision.
- precision instruments/tools
Extra Examples- Chimps are able to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision.
- He organized the team with military precision.
- The captain struck again with deadly precision.
- The movements are executed with the utmost precision.
- The rebels launched missiles with pinpoint precision.
- We can now choose our targets with greater precision.
- surgery which requires great precision
- The buildings were neatly laid out with almost mathematical precision.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- deadly
- perfect
- …
- degree
- call for
- demand
- require
- …
- engineering
- instrument
- tool
- …
- with precision
- precision in
- a lack of precision
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from French précision or Latin praecisio(n-), from praecidere ‘cut off’, from prae ‘in advance’ + caedere ‘to cut’.Definitions on the go
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