PRECISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precision mean? 

• PRECISION (noun)
  The noun PRECISION has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

  Familiarity information: PRECISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

preciseness; precision

Context example:

note the meticulous precision of his measurements

Hypernyms ("precision" is a kind of...):

exactitude; exactness (the quality of being exact)

Antonym:

imprecision (the quality of lacking precision)

 Context examples 

This analytical method could form the basis for developing precision medicine approaches to rheumatoid arthritis.

(Rheumatoid arthritis mechanisms may vary by joint, NIH)

A spectrograph is a diagnostic tool that divides light from an object into its many individual wavelengths to determine its speed, temperature, and other characteristics at a very high precision.

(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)

In addition, the NuSTAR telescope can measure rapid X-ray pulsations with fine precision.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

We developed reagents that don’t give any cross result with other diseases and keeps its high precision.

(New blood test to detect Zika approved in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

An instrument that is able to determine the mass of a sample with a high degree of precision.

(Analytical Balance, NCI Thesaurus)

Gene expression profiles may be used in precision medicine.

(Gene expression profile, NCI Dictionary)

The smallest concentration of an analyte that can be determined with a stated precision or confidence.

(Detection Limit, NCI Thesaurus)

Using these signals, scientists can measure the spacecraft's speed to a precision of 0.004 inches (0.1 millimeters) per second, and then calculate the details of the gravity field.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)

It adds precision to detecting the disease.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

Everything had been carefully thought out, and done systematically and with precision.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)