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{
"term": "precision",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the quality of being exact, accurate and careful",
"sensetop": "with precision",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her writing is imaginative but lacks precision."
},
{
"text": "He chose his words with precision.",
"contextForm": "with precision"
},
{
"text": "done with mathematical precision"
},
{
"text": "Historians can’t estimate the date **with any (degree of) precision**."
},
{
"text": "precision instruments/tools"
},
{
"text": "Chimps are able to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision."
},
{
"text": "He organized the team with military precision."
},
{
"text": "The captain struck again with deadly precision."
},
{
"text": "The movements are executed with the utmost precision."
},
{
"text": "The rebels launched missiles with pinpoint precision."
},
{
"text": "We can now choose our targets with greater precision."
},
{
"text": "surgery which requires great precision"
},
{
"text": "The buildings were neatly laid out with almost mathematical precision."
}
],
"synonyms": "accuracy",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "deadly", "perfect"],
"… of precision": ["degree"],
"verb + precision": ["call for", "demand", "require"],
"precision + noun": ["engineering", "instrument", "tool"],
"preposition": ["with precision", "precision in"],
"phrases": ["a lack of precision"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prɪˈsɪʒn/",
"audio": "pr/precision/precision__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prɪˈsɪʒn/",
"audio": "pr/precision/precision__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 18th cent.: from French précision or Latin praecisio(n-), from praecidere ‘cut off’, from prae ‘in advance’ + caedere ‘to cut’."
}