different between technique vs precision

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French technique (“technicality; branch of knowledge”), noun use of technique (“technical”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from ????? (tékhn?, “art, handicraft”), from ??????? (tíktein, “to bring forth, produce, engender”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t?k?ni?k/

Noun

technique (countable and uncountable, plural techniques)

1. (uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. [from 19th c.]
   • 1924, HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey, p. 97:

     Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].
2. (uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist, 3 Feb 2011:

     Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique.

3. (countable) A method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge. [from 19th c.]
   • 2011, Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 16 Mar 2011:

     They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.

Derived terms

• teqball

Related terms

• technic
• technical
• technician
• techniquing

Translations

Further reading

• technique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• technique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• technique at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from ????? (tékhn?, “art, handicraft”), from ??????? (tíktein, “to bring forth, produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k.nik/

Adjective

technique (plural techniques)

1. technical

Noun

technique f (plural techniques)

1. technique, technology

Further reading

• “technique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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