I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
With surgical precision
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With surgical precision he cut four inches off the legs of the jeans.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Everything had to be worked out with great precision .
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The greater the precision with which you measure the position, the more uncertain the momentum becomes, and vice versa.
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Here the parallelism of greater precision may help to solve a long-standing exegetical problem.
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There are indeed several points at which the parallelism of greater precision corresponds to features that have previously been noted.
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Athletic performance is constantly measured with great precision .
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At the same time, these strictures need to be put with much greater precision .
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If it is later decided to compare primaries, then equal-sized samples from each are likely to give greatest precision .
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Similarly, the door mirrors worked but not with any great precision .
high
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The higher the specificity of indexing, the more likely that search outputs will show high precision .
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These high-precision quartz plates are used in the manufacturing of semiconductor computer wafers.
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Here, high precision but low recall is satisfactory.
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Like our own hands, those of most primates allow them to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision .
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The instruments are designed for high precision scientific applications including single crystal calorimetry, laser induced desorption and flash temperature gas evolution.
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The high precision work reduces the space between the implant and the bone.
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These instruments combine constant resolution and high precision of frequency measurement with great photometric accuracy.
mathematical
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Bjornsson explains in a way which serves to remind us that the mathematical precision of a readability formula may be misleading.
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Increased mathematical precision was deemed to give a new scientificity to biological and evolutionary phenomena.
military
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The team's organisation has acquired an almost military precision .
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Lott put together a whip organization that worked with military precision to deliver the votes.
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As usual he had planned his early morning routine with almost military precision .
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She was the household manager, arranging meals and tasks with a military precision unusual in an adolescent.
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Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision .
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Then, with military precision , signs, flags and other outward markings will change.
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In later seasons, it became evident that the very straight alignment indicated a military precision .
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It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision .
scientific
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Surprisingly the 50, or 47 to be exact, were chosen with scientific precision .
surgical
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But within 10 minutes Dalton had restored parity with surgical precision from 15 yards.
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It was an operation executed with little surgical precision .
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We were going to be inserted into it - with what they call surgical precision .
■ NOUN
instrument
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A precision instrument whose chief virtues were useless to anyone in this age.
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Basingstoke is noted for precision instruments .
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Wildland fire is not a precision instrument .
■ VERB
achieve
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It is doubtful whether much can be gained by trying to achieve any greater precision than that suggested in the definitions above.
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Evaluating more than two biopsy samples leads to an alignment in the number of crypts required to achieve a certain precision .
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To achieve the required precision in thin section making, a considerable degree of mechanization is required, and this is expensive.
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At last it was possible for them to achieve absolute precision .
give
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If it is later decided to compare primaries, then equal-sized samples from each are likely to give greatest precision .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with clockwork precision/accuracy
with military precision
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Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision.
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Due to their weight and size the ancient fossils were handled with military precision as they were placed inside the monstrous fire-breathing cart.
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It was clear that the Great Casterton defences had been planned and carried out in an unhurried manner and with military precision.
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Lott put together a whip organization that worked with military precision to deliver the votes.
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Then, with military precision, signs, flags and other outward markings will change.
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They had a disciplined system, and Captain Burrows ruled the household with military precision.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The work is done with consistency and precision .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even in the days of precision strikes, attacks from the air would risk civilian casualties.
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I have time to discuss only one lexical myth: this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision .
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Lower specificity will be associated with lower precision but high recall.
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Pais chronicles the final moments with his characteristic precision .
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Some horologists consider the Jefferys timepiece the first true precision watch.
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The relationship between precision and recall and specificity is interesting.
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Without the help of the written word, film and videotape can not portray temporal dimensions with any precision .
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with clockwork precision/accuracy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Golf is a precision sport.