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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Precision \Pre*ci"sion\, noun [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.
I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. --Locke.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
precision
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}] [ant: {impreciseness}, {impreciseness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "precision": 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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
precision The number of decimal places to which a number is computed. Compare {accuracy}. (1998-04-19)
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