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precise

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See also:précise,precisé,andprécisé

English

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Alternative forms

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præcise(archaic)

Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchprécis, fromLatinpraecisus, perfect passive participle ofpraecīdere, fromprae-(“before, in front”) +‎caedere(“cut; strike”), cognate withhit. Related toincise.Doublet ofprécis.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsaɪs/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-aɪs
Hyphenation:pre‧cise

Adjective

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precise (comparativemorepreciseorpreciser,superlativemostpreciseorprecisest)

(loosely) Bothexact andaccurate.
Antonyms:inexact,imprecise
- 1921, Bertrand Russell,The Analysis of Mind:
  A memory is "precise" when the occurrences that would verify it are narrowly circumscribed: for instance, "I met Jones" isprecise as compared to "I met a man." A memory is "accurate" when it is both precise and true, i.e. in the above instance, if it was Jones I met.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide‎^[1], page 7:
  Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overlyprecise.
(sciences, engineering, of data points, strictly)Consistent,clustered close together,agreeing with each other(this doesnot mean that they cluster near thetrue,correct, oraccurate value).
Antonyms:imprecise;inconsistent,varying
Coordinate term:accurate
Adhering too much to rules;prim orpunctilious.

exact

American Sign Language:SmallO@NearTipThumb-PalmDown-SmallO@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp CirclesSurface Contact
Arabic:مَضْبُوط(maḍbūṭ),دَقِيق (ar)(daqīq)
Armenian:ճիշտ (hy)(čišt),ճշգրիտ (hy)(čšgrit)
Azerbaijani:dəqiq (az)
Belarusian:дакла́дны(dakládny)
Bulgarian:то́чен (bg)(tóčen),преци́зен (bg)(precízen)
Catalan:precís (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin:準確 /准确 (zh)(zhǔnquè),正確 /正确 (zh)(zhèngquè),精確 /精确 (zh)(jīngquè)
Czech:přesný (cs)
Danish:præcis (da)
Dutch:nauwkeurig (nl),precies (nl)
Esperanto:preciza (eo)
Estonian:täpne (et)
Finnish:tarkka (fi)
French:précis (fr)
Galician:preciso (gl)
Georgian:ზუსტი(zusṭi)
German:präzise (de),genau (de)
Greek:ακριβής (el)(akrivís)
Ancient:ἀκριβής(akribḗs),ἀτρεκής(atrekḗs)
Hungarian:pontos (hu)
Ingrian:tocnoi
Irish:cruinn,beacht,gonta,pointeáilte
Italian:preciso (it),esatto (it),accurato (it)
Japanese:正確な (ja)(せいかくな, seikaku na),精密な (ja)(せいみつな, seimitsu na),厳密な (ja)(げんみつな, genmitsu na)
Khmer:ត្រឹម (km)(trəm)
Korean:정확한 (ko)(jeonghwak-han)
Latin:exāctus
Latvian:precīzs
Lithuanian:tikslus (lt)
Macedonian:то́чен(tóčen),пре́цизен(précizen)
Mongolian:нарийн (mn)(nariin)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:presis (no),nøyaktig (no)
Occitan:precís (oc)
Persian:دقیق (fa)(daqiq),پرسون(parsun)
Polish:dokładny (pl),precyzyjny (pl)
Portuguese:preciso (pt)
Russian:то́чный (ru)(tóčnyj)
Scottish Gaelic:pongail
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:точан,тачан,прецизан
Roman:točan (sh),tačan (sh),precizan (sh)
Slovak:presný
Slovene:natančen
Spanish:preciso (es),concreto (es)
Swedish:precis (sv),noggrann (sv),noga (sv),exakt (sv)
Thai:แม่นยำ (th)(mɛ̂n-yam)
Turkish:dakik (tr),kesin (tr)
Ukrainian:то́чний (uk)(tóčnyj),докла́дний(dokládnyj)
West Frisian:preciis

(sciences) clustered close together

Arabic:please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin:please add this translation if you can
Dutch:precijs
Finnish:täsmällinen (fi),tarkka (fi)
German:exakt (de)
Interlingua:precise
Japanese:厳密な(げんみつな, genmitsu na),正確な(せいかくな, seikaku na)
Portuguese:preciso (pt)
Russian:please add this translation if you can
Swedish:noggrann (sv)
West Frisian:preciis

Verb

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precise (third-person singular simple presentprecises,present participleprecising,simple past and past participleprecised)

(nonstandard, European Union documents, transitive) To make or render precise; tospecify.
- 2011,Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the Common Fisheries Policy:
  This proposal for a new basic regulation is justified because there is a needto precise the objectives of the CFP.