Precision, precise or precisely may refer to:
Arts and media
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''Precision'' (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada
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"Precision" (song), by Big Sean
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''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
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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
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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
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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 describe ...
, a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed
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Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision
Computing products
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Dell Precision
Dell Precision is a line of computer workstations for computer-aided design/architecture/computer graphics professionals . They are available in both desktop (tower) and mobile (laptop) forms. Dell touts their Precision Mobile Workstations are "op ...
, 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
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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; Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange, DSE:PAL) is a List of airlines of Tanzania, Tanzanian airline based at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam. The airline operates scheduled pa ...
, an airline based in Tanzania
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Precision Castparts Corp.
Precision Castparts Corp. is an American industrial goods and metal fabrication company that manufactures investment castings, forged components, and airfoil castings for use in the aerospace, industrial gas turbine, and defense industries ...
, 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 converters ...
, 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, 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 intelligen ...
, formerly Syncsort
Other uses
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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 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 version with a centerboard and no ballast was also built and designate ...
, a self-bailing dinghy
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Fender Precision Bass
The Fender Precision Bass (or "P-Bass") is a model of bass guitar, electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. In its standard, post-1957 configuration, the Precision Bass is a solid body, four-stringed instrument ...
, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
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 u ...
, 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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