Precision in measurement is a necessity.
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Precision
//pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən//
Synonyms for "precision" (106 found)
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57 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀκρίβεια noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Bulgarian
4 entries- прецизен adj (used for exact or precise measurement)
- точен adj (made, or characterized by accuracy)
- точност noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- точност noun (the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably)
Catalan
1 entries- precisió noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 準確度 /准确度 noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- 精度 noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Czech
1 entries- přesnost noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Dutch
1 entries- precisie noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Esperanto
1 entries- precizeco noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Finnish
4 entries- tarkkuus adj (used for exact or precise measurement)
- tarkkuus adj (made, or characterized by accuracy)
- täsmä adj (used for exact or precise measurement)
- täsmä adj (made, or characterized by accuracy)
French
1 entries- précision noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
German
4 entries- Genauigkeit noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- Messpräzision noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
- Präzision noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- Präzision noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
Icelandic
1 entries- nákvæmni noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Irish
1 entries- cruinneas noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Italian
1 entries- precisione noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
Japanese
4 entries- 精度 adj (used for exact or precise measurement)
- 正確性 noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- 精度 noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- 精度 noun (the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- presisjon noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- presisjon noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Polish
4 entries- dokładność noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- dokładność noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
- dokładność noun (the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably)
- dokładność noun (the consistency of a number in a linear equation)
Portuguese
4 entries- de precisão adj (used for exact or precise measurement)
- de precisão adj (made, or characterized by accuracy)
- precisão noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- precisão noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
Romanian
3 entries- exactitate noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- precizie noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- precizie noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
Russian
4 entries- то́чность noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- то́чность noun (the ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently)
- то́чность noun (the number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably)
- то́чность noun (the consistency of a number in a linear equation)
Spanish
2 entries- exactitud noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- precisión noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Swedish
2 entries- exakthet noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
- precision noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
West-Frisian
1 entries- krektens noun (the state of being precise or exact; exactness)
Sample sentences
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He copied his friend's notebook with precision.
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As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.
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The precision ratio is an index that indicates how many articles meet the search criteria out of all of the articles retrieved.
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