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precision

[pri-sizh-uhn] / prɪˈsɪʒ ən /


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Viewed through a singular perspective, the camera glides with measured precision, reflecting her focus and quiet intensity.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

The techniques vary: either seeding rockets are burned to release a plume of particles, or the saline solution is sprayed directly into the cloud for greater precision.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

The K3 Scout sea drones can remotely carry out surveillance, and according to their supplier, "support a wide range of mission profiles including maritime awareness, force protection, logistics and precision strike".

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

"By enabling heat to be guided, focused and redistributed with nanoscale precision at room temperature, the discovery establishes a foundation for quantum thermal engineering."

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

I could not understand how muntu could refer to a living person or a dead one with equal precision, but Nelson just shrugged.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

She had not been able to help outgrowing its narrow opinions and formal precisions; and when she came home, crushed with her scarcely realized grief, nothing there had power to comfort her.

From The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge




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