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/pɹɪsˈaɪs/
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[ US /pɹiˈsaɪs, pɹɪˈsaɪs/ ]
[ US /pɹiˈsaɪs, pɹɪˈsaɪs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
a precise measurement
a precise image -
sharply exact or accurate or delimited
a precise mind
arrived at the precise moment
specified a precise amount
How To Use precise In A Sentence
- What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
- There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton. The Antiquity of Man
- As precise definitions of words do not translate well from one language to another, words connoting latria and dulia vary from one language to another.
- With cross-sectional data it is not possible to make precise comparisons between changes in employment and economic activity over time.
- Of course what is small will inevitably vary greatly according to the circumstances and to say that a curtilage is a small area is obviously not to provide any precise test of identification.
- Using the products as a microheater provides a precise heating device, says Amit Das, director of product development.
- It is very hard to match digital computing, which is designed for precise, accurate calculations, to this domain.
- But it is precisely the familiarity of the urban terrain to those who live there that enables them to use it to the advantages of ambushes, surprise attacks and rapid redeployment.
- “Part of an adult faith, for example, is a commitment to the inviolability of human life from its first moment, radically opposing the principle of violence, precisely in the defense of the most defenseless of human creatures,” the pope said. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
- So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876