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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