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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Shifting between precision and improvisation, each rhythmic mark registers its own time signature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

To achieve their new level of precision, the team departed from the conventional method of estimating primordial helium.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

"The next step is to characterize abnormal functional and structural brain states along these pathways to build more detailed models for setting patient-specific stimulation parameters, including amplitude, frequency, and pulse width, for precision medicine."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Autonomous trucks can reduce fuel consumption by 10% because they can calibrate speeds and optimize acceleration, braking and coasting with more precision, the companies say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

While the room was very old, the acoustics were perfect, and there was a balance and precision to the space that seemed almost magical.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

And yet an EUV alone is a nearly miraculous human achievement, capable of working at scales and precisions that are difficult to fathom.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

“We can create these models that basically let us know the time of arrival to precisions that rival atomic clocks,” says Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at Cornell University and a member of NANOGrav.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2023

It’s in these precisions that the historical and sociological force of her work registers.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

They will have to decide which qubits in the computer to use and how to deal with ranges of operational fidelities and low-level precisions that are foreign to most modern programmers.

From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2017

The first includes a greatest vocabulary proper names by alphabetical order; and the second forty three Dialogues adapted to the usual precisions of the life.

From English as she is spoke or, A jest in sober earnest by José da Fonseca


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