different between precision vs precisive

English

Etymology

From Middle French precision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???s?.?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

precision (countable and uncountable, plural precisions)

1. The state of being precise or exact; exactness.
2. The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
3. (mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
4. (bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.

Derived terms

• arbitrary-precision

Translations

See also

• accuracy

References

• precision on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

precision (not comparable)

1. Used for exact or precise measurement.
2. Made, or characterized by accuracy.

Translations

Anagrams

• isoprenic

Middle French

Alternative forms

• précision

Etymology

First known attestation 1380, borrowed from Latin praecisi?.

Noun

precision f (plural precisions)

1. precision (quality of being precise)

References

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /p?i?sa?.s?v/

Adjective

precisive (comparative more precisive, superlative most precisive)

1. Cutting off.
2. (logic) Exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relevant.

   precisive censure

   precisive abstraction

Related terms

• precise, precision
• decisive, incisive

References

• precisive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.