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Precision, precise or precisely may refer to:


Arts and media

* ''Precision'' (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada * "Precision" (song), by Big Sean * ''Precisely'' (sketch), a dramatic sketch by the English playwright Harold Pinter


Science, and technology, and mathematics


Mathematics and computing (general)

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Accuracy and precision Accuracy and precision are two measures of ''observational error''. ''Accuracy'' is how close a given set of measurements (observations or readings) are to their ''true value''. ''Precision'' is how close the measurements are to each other. The ...
, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter *
Significant figures Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits, are specific digits within a number that is written in positional notation that carry both reliability and necessity in conveying a particular quantity. When presenting the outcom ...
, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement *
Precision and recall In pattern recognition, information retrieval, object detection and classification (machine learning), precision and recall are performance metrics that apply to data retrieved from a collection, corpus or sample space. Precision (also calle ...
, in information retrieval: the proportion of relevant documents returned * Precision (computer science), a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed * Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision


Computing products

* Dell Precision, a line of Dell workstations * Precision Architecture, former name for
PA-RISC Precision Architecture reduced instruction set computer, RISC (PA-RISC) or Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP/PA or simply HPPA), is a computer, general purpose computer instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard f ...
, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard * Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", Canonical's sixteenth release of Ubuntu


Companies

* Precision Air, an airline based in Tanzania * Precision Castparts Corp., a casting company based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States * Precision Drilling, the largest drilling-rig contractor in Canada * Precision Monolithics, an American company that produced linear semiconductors * Precision Talent, a voice-over talent-management company * F. E. Baker Ltd, maker of ''Precision'' motorcycle and cycle-car engines pre-WW1 * Precisely (company), formerly Syncsort


Other uses

* Precision Club, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge * Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy * Fender Precision Bass, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation


See also

* Precisionism, an artistic movement also known as Cubist Realism * Precisionist (1981–2006), an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse {{disambiguation