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precise

  • adjective
  • pre·cise
  • /pɹɪˈsaɪs/

Both exact and accurate.

Other meanings

  1. Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value.

  2. Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.

Related words

  • prissy

Word history

From Latin "praecīsus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “precise” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.