Precision, precise or precisely may refer to:
Science, and technology, and mathematics
Mathematics and computing (general)
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Accuracy and precision, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter
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Significant figures
Significant figures (also known as the significant digits, ''precision'' or ''resolution'') of a number in positional notation are digits in the number that are reliable and necessary to indicate the quantity of something.
If a number expres ...
, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement
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Precision and recall, in information retrieval: the proportion of relevant documents returned
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Precision (computer science)
In computer science, the precision of a numerical quantity is a measure of the detail in which the quantity is expressed. This is usually measured in bits, but sometimes in decimal digits. It is related to precision in mathematics, which describ ...
, a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed
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Precision (statistics)
In statistics, the precision matrix or concentration matrix is the matrix inverse of the covariance matrix or dispersion matrix, P = \Sigma^.
For univariate distributions, the precision matrix degenerates into a scalar precision, defined as the ...
, a model parameter or a quantification of precision
Computing products
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Dell Precision
Dell Precision is a series of computer workstations for CAD/architecture/ CG professionals, or as small-scale business servers.
Dell Precision Mobile Workstations
3000, 5000, 7000 Series (2015–current)
Dell announced a new seri ...
, a line of Dell workstations
* Precision Architecture, former name for
PA-RISC
PA-RISC is an instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard. As the name implies, it is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, where the PA stands for Precision Architecture. The design is also referred to as ...
, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
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Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", Canonical's sixteenth release of Ubuntu
Companies
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Precision Air
Precision Air Services Plc (operating as Precision Air; DSE:PAL) is a Tanzanian airline based at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam. The airline operates scheduled passenger services to Nairobi, Entebbe, and to various airp ...
, an airline based in Tanzania
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Precision Castparts Corp., a casting company based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States
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Precision Drilling
Precision Drilling Corporation is the largest drilling rig contractor in Canada, also providing oil field rental and supplies.
History
Precision Drilling Ltd. was founded in 1951.
In 1987, Precision Drilling was acquired by Cypress Drilling, ...
, the largest drilling-rig contractor in Canada
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Precision Monolithics
Precision Monolithics, Inc. also known as PMI, was an American company based in Santa Clara, California, that developed and produced mixed signal and linear integrated circuits (ICs). It was a pioneer in the fields of digital-to-analog converter ...
, an American company that produced linear semiconductors
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Precision Talent
Founded in 2007, Precision Talent was a voice over talent management company, audio production house, voice over casting service, and a spoken word record label. It is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Precision Talent represented a tale ...
, a voice-over talent-management company
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F.E. Baker Ltd
F. E. Baker Ltd was a British motorcycle engine and cyclecar engine manufacturer based in the Precision Works, Moorsom Street, Birmingham, England. Founded in 1906 by Frank Edward Baker, the company produced motorcycle engines under the Precisi ...
, maker of ''Precision'' motorcycle and cycle-car engines pre-WW1
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Precisely (company)
Precisely Holdings, LLC, doing business as Precisely, is a software company specializing in data integrity tools, and also providing big data, high-speed sorting, ETL, data integration, data quality, data enrichment, and location intelligence ...
, formerly Syncsort
Other
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Precision Club
Precision Club is a bidding system in the game of contract bridge. It is a strong club system developed in 1969 for C. C. Wei by Alan Truscott, and used by Taiwan teams in 1969. Their success in placing second at the 1969 Bermuda Bowl (and Wei's ...
, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge
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''Precision'' (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada
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Precision 15
The Precision 15, also called the Precision 15 K (for keel), is an American trailerable sailboat, that was designed by Jim Taylor and first built in 1995.
A sailing dinghy
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using fi ...
, a self-bailing dinghy
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Fender Precision Bass, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
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''Precisely'' (sketch), a dramatic sketch by the English playwright Harold Pinter
See also
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Precisionism
Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I. Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often us ...
, an artistic movement also known as Cubist Realism
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Precisionist (1981–2006), an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
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