English Dictionary
precision
n : the quality of being precise in amount or performance; "he
handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note
the meticulous precision of his measurements" [syn: {preciseness}]
[ant: {impreciseness}, {impreciseness}]
English Computing Dictionary
precision
The number of decimal places to which a number
is computed.
Compare {accuracy}.
(1998-04-19)