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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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The results highlight the extraordinary precision of the telescope's design and offer a promising outlook for its upcoming investigations into the hidden structure and evolution of the universe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

By using these atomic steps as natural guiding tracks, scientists may be able to control vortex motion with remarkable precision.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Ukraine’s European allies provide satellite and other airborne intelligence, but it lacks the precision, scope and capabilities of that coming from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The first act, directed with cool precision by Ms. Kauffman, is terrific, as the tensions and frictions among the characters slowly build.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Events were fitting together now with the precision of pentominoes.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett

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 harsh precisions of the Baileys and Altiora's blunt directness threw up her fineness into relief and made a grace of every weakness.

From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells


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