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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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It was not without a few glitches, however, including engine issues with the Super Heavy booster that necessitated a crash into the Gulf of Mexico rather than a precision return.

From Barron's Jul. 16, 2026

Sinner continued to move through the gears after Djokovic rescued the first break point of the match, hitting with immense power and laser-like precision to get his opponent on the run.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

This flexible design explains how bacteria can create a variety of related drug molecules while still maintaining the precision needed for the compounds to remain effective.

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

“There needs to be a real push to reconcile the entire defense industry—make it more efficient, have it produce more of what’s needed,” including air defense, deep precision strike and unmanned systems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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

She had not been able to help outgrowing its narrow opinions and formal precisions; and when she came home, crushed with her scarcely realized grief, nothing there had power to comfort her.

From The Three Brides by Yonge, Charlotte Mary




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