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say it: pree-SIZH-uhn
precision is a noun meaning "the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance". It is pronounced /pɹiˈsɪʒən/ — pree-SIZH-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for precision come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.