Usually means: Accuracy of measurements or calculations.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word precision:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. precision: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. precision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precision: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precision: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precision: Vocabulary.com
  6. Precision, precision: Wordnik
  7. precision: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. precision: Wiktionary
  9. precision: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. precision: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. precision: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Precision, precision: Dictionary.com
  13. precision: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Precision (arithmetic), Precision (computer science), Precision (error), Precision (information retrieval), Precision (march), Precision (statistics), Precision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Precision: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. precision: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. precision: Rhymezone
  18. precision: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. precision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. precision: Free Dictionary
  21. precision: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. precision: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. precision: Glossary of research economics
  2. precision: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. precision: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. precision: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. precision: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PRECISION: Acronym Finder

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Precision: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Statistics (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precision: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precision: Fifthchair Bridge

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  7. Rapid Prototyping Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See precisionist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (loosely) The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
noun:  (strictly) The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
noun:  (mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
noun:  (bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
adjective:  Used for exact or precise measurement.
adjective:  Made, or characterized by accuracy.

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