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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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"Our technique turns out to be remarkably stable. Depending on the desired precision, we can systematically improve our formulas using additional approximation methods," says Florian Ecker from TU Wien.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

To do it, the instrument can maneuver a flexible mirror with near-atomic-scale precision to focus the bright starlight into a pinprick, then block it with a mask so it can observe the dim planet.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

A major obstacle, however, has been producing these signals with the precision and stability required for advanced applications.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

It added that Washington needs to immediately put mass production of precision missiles on a wartime footing because “waiting until conflict begins will be too late.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Fischer began fighting for a draw, but Spassky’s moves were a study in precision and his position got stronger.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams




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