precise

English

Alternative forms

• præcise (archaic)

Adjective

precise (comparative more precise, superlative most precise)

1. exact, accurate
   • 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" is precise 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.

2. (sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:meticulous

Antonyms

• (exact, accurate): inexact, imprecise
• (consistent): inconsistent, varying

Derived terms

• prissy

Translations

exact

• American Sign Language: SmallO@NearTipThumb-PalmDown-SmallO@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp CirclesSurface Contact
• Arabic: مضبوط (maDbuuT) m
• Armenian: ճիշտ (hy) (č̣išt) , ճշգրիտ (hy) (č̣šgrit) 
• Chinese: 准确 (zhǔnquè)
• Czech: přesný (cs) m
• Danish: præcis (da)
• Dutch: nauwkeurig (nl), precies (nl)
• Esperanto: preciza (eo)
• Finnish: tarkka (fi)
• French: précis (fr)
• German: präzise (de), genau (de)
• Greek: ακριβής (el) (akrivís) 

• Hungarian: pontos (hu)
• Italian: preciso (it), esatto (it), accurato (it)
• Japanese: 厳密な (げんみつな, genmitsuna), 正確な (せいかくな, seikakuna)
• Korean: 정확한 (jeonghwakhan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: presis (no), nøyaktig (no)

• Persian: دقیق (fa) (daqiq)
• Portuguese: preciso (pt)
• Russian: точный (ru) (tóčnyj) 
• Scottish Gaelic: pongail (gd)
• Spanish: preciso (es)
• Swedish: precis (sv)
• West Frisian: preciis

(sciences) clustered close together

• Dutch: precijs (nl)
• Finnish: tarkka (fi)
• German: exakt (de)
• Interlingua: precise

• Japanese: 厳密な (げんみつな, genmitsuna), 正確な (せいかくな, seikakuna)
• Portuguese: preciso (pt) m, precisa (pt) f
• Swedish: noggrann (sv)
• West Frisian: preciis

Anagrams

• pierces, recipes

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Italian

Adjective

precise pl

1. feminine form of preciso

Verb

precise f

1. Plural of preciso

precise

1. third-person singular past historic of precidere

Anagrams

• perisce

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Portuguese

Verb

precise

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of precisar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of precisar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of precisar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of precisar

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Spanish

Verb

precise (infinitive precisar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of precisar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of precisar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of precisar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of precisar.