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racy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke.

Want of precision. [R.]

his exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. Reid. The accuracy with wh…

The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.

majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon.

To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument. Rings . . . very distinct and well defined. Sir I. Newton.

In a definite manner; with precision; precisely; determinately.

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

Distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.

chine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products. We have also divers mechanical arts. Bacon.

Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.

nderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retires. Dr. H. More. Careful, even to scrupulosity, . . . to keep their Sabbath. South.

A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars. Shak. His troops moved to victory with the precision of machines. Macaulay.

Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original. Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time. Sir W. Scott.