Word Meanings - PRECISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. --

Additional info about word: PRECISION

The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. -- Precision, Preciseness. Precision is always used in a good sense; as, precision of thought or language; precision in military evolutions. Preciseness is sometimes applied to persons or their conduct in a disparaging sense, and precise is often used in the same way.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECISION)

• Accuracy
• Exactness
• correctness
• strictness
• precision
• exactitude
• nicety
• fidelity
• Pharisaical
• Sanctimonious
• formal
• ceremonious

Related words: (words related to PRECISION)

• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SANCTIMONIOUS
  1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. Shak. 2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness; hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious pirate." Shak. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• CEREMONIOUSLY
  In a ceremonious way.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• FORMAL
  1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
• CORRECTNESS
  The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
• ACCURACY
  The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this 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.
• FORMALLY
  In a formal manner; essentially; characteristically; expressly; regularly; ceremoniously; precisely. That which formally makes this a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows. Smalridge. You and your followers do stand formally divided
• CEREMONIOUSNESS
  The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.
• PRECISION
  The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness. I have left out the utmost precisions of fractions. Locke. Syn. -- Preciseness; exactness; accuracy; nicety. --
• EXACTITUDE
  The quality of being exact; exactness.
• FIDELITY
  Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially: Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty. Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. Macaulay. The best
• CEREMONIOUS
  1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. Note: The ceremonious part of His worship. South. 2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious
• EXACTNESS
  1. The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment. 2. Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business. He had . . . that sort of exactness
• FORMALISM
  The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. Official formalism. Sir H. Rawlinson.
• FORMALIST
  One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits,
• FORMALDEHYDE
  A colorless, volatile liquid, H2CO, resembling acetic or ethyl aldehyde, and chemically intermediate between methyl alcohol and formic acid.
• FORMALIN
  An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• INFORMALLY
  In an informal manner.
• INACCURACY
  1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
• INFORMALITY
  1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does
• INFORMAL
  1. Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit. 2. Deranged in mind; out of
• IMPRECISION
  Want of precision.