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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Even if scientists could identify the ideal blast configuration, executing it would require extraordinary precision.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

However, with cupping training not always readily offered, the ISO provides something reassuring: precision, expertise, and sharing.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

First published in 1980 and updated in 2019, it brings the same bureaucratic precision to preparing tea.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle states that certain properties, such as a particle's position and momentum, cannot both be measured with unlimited precision.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Father would stand at his vantage point on the platform almost on tiptoe with the joy of precision, holding his pocket watch and a pad and pencil.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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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