Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: precision
IPA transcription: [pɹis'ɪʒən]
Pronunciations of precision
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: preciseness, precision
    Meaning: the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance; "he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note the meticulous precision of his measurements"
Usage examples
  • Pray remember with precision the words you have just uttered.
  • Swiftly they brought their work to completion, with a speed and precision they had concealed before.
  • For the news, as we have seen, is precise in proportion to the precision with which the event is recorded.
  • She swung the axe with vigor and precision, and the chips flew; but I could not help saying, "You ought to make the man do that."
  • These definitions would have all the precision that could be desired if the distinction between physical and psychological causation were clear and sharp.
  • But the line between these two types of man-god, however sharply we may draw it in theory, is seldom to be traced with precision in practice, and in what follows I shall not insist on it.
  • Afterwards, however, she recovered her speech, and, being somewhat restored by a cordial, conversed for a considerable time, on the subject of her estates in France, with clearness and precision.
  • In the contemplation of the heavenly bodies it struck me forcibly that I could not distinguish a star with nearly as much precision, when I gazed on it with earnest, direct and undeviating attention, as when I suffered my eye only to glance in its vicinity alone.
  • Besides, the world would have been free from the reproach of accepting the fruits of his bright genius while condemning the worker to a life of misery, relieved only by the beauty of his own thoughts and the ecstasy awakened in him by the harmony and precision of Nature.
  • In that case, it was a leap calculated and executed with precision, for as the boys clamoured their pleased astonishment, Gipsy descended accurately into the orifice and passed majestically from public view, with the fishbone still in his mouth and his haughty head still high.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Precision marketing, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lego, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hubble Space Telescope, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titan (supercomputer), License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sound quality, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Binary star, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Logitech, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording HTTP cookie, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Imagism, License CC BY-SA 4.0