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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Their lawyer, Joko Jumadi, says he has been struck by the students' courage and precision.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

The rounding rules are almost touching in their precision.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Lasers are often used to change the states of qubits with very high precision.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

In an operation with a degree of military precision, the small fleet of lorries departed for Dover just after sunrise, where the men staged an intimidating show of strength near the port.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

It landed with such perfect precision that the branches of one of the trees came to a stop half an inch from a window, as if reaching out to stroke the glass.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

Culture they do not need: their dainty hieratic precisions of ritual are a sufficient culture in themselves.

From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang




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