Precision

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Precision, precise or precisely may refer to:

Science, and technology, and mathematics

Mathematics and computing (general)

  • Accuracy and precision, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter
  • Significant figures, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement
  • Precision and recall, in information retrieval: the percentage of relevant documents returned
  • Precision (computer science), a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed
  • Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision

Computing products

  • Dell Precision, a line of Dell workstations
  • Precision Architecture, former name for PA-RISC, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
  • Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", Canonical's sixteenth release of Ubuntu

Companies

  • Precision Air, an airline based in Tanzania
  • Precision Castparts Corp., a casting company based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States
  • Precision Drilling, the largest drilling-rig contractor in Canada
  • Precision Monolithics, an American company that produced linear semiconductors
  • Precision Talent, a voice-over talent-management company
  • Precise Software, a transaction performance management company
  • F.E. Baker Ltd, maker of Precision motorcycle and cycle-car engines pre-WW1
  • Precisely (company), formerly Syncsort

Other

  • Precision Club, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge
  • Precision (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada
  • Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy
  • Fender Precision Bass, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
  • Precisely (sketch), a dramatic sketch by the English playwright Harold Pinter

See also

  • Precisionism, an artistic movement also known as Cubist Realism
  • Precisionist (1981–2006), an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
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