precision Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
preciseness.
- he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton
- note the meticulous precision of his measurements

Cf. F. précision, L. praecisio a cutting off. See Precise.

The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke.
Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. -- Precision, Preciseness. Precision is always used in a good sense; as, precision of thought or language; precision in military evolutions. Preciseness is sometimes applied to persons or their conduct in a disparaging sense, and precise is often used in the same way.