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The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

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  1. n. The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
  2. n. the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
  3. 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. -- 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.
  4. 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.
  5. n:100 n the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance