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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Because of U.S. export curbs, China has access only to previous-generation deep-ultraviolet, or DUV, machines, which can’t etch with as much precision.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

With the Los Tropicanos backing band behind him, Iggy’s energy was transferred through the players who bolstered his catalog of Detroit-bred proto punk with tight precision and the right amount of stumbling sleaziness.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

They're skilled in water collection, bucket deployment and precision flying.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Even with those limitations, the results point toward a developing field known as precision nutrition.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

For instance, we know, with some precision, the position of the particles inside.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

And yet an EUV alone is a nearly miraculous human achievement, capable of working at scales and precisions that are difficult to fathom.

From New York Times Jul. 12, 2023

“We can create these models that basically let us know the time of arrival to precisions that rival atomic clocks,” says Thankful Cromartie, an astrophysicist at Cornell University and a member of NANOGrav.

From Scientific American Jun. 28, 2023

It’s in these precisions that the historical and sociological force of her work registers.

From Washington Post Apr. 6, 2023

They will have to decide which qubits in the computer to use and how to deal with ranges of operational fidelities and low-level precisions that are foreign to most modern programmers.

From Nature Sep. 12, 2017

The harsh precisions of the Baileys and Altiora's blunt directness threw up her fineness into relief and made a grace of every weakness.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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