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precision
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the quality or state of being very accurate the company that measures TV ratings prides itself on the precision of its calculations Synonyms accuracy, accurateness, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fineness, nicety, perfection, preciseness, rigor, rigorousness, ultraprecision, veracity Related Words correctness, fidelity, rightness, strictness, truth; definiteness, definitiveness, definitude, determinacy; nicety, subtlety; care, carefulness, fastidiousness, meticulousness, persnicketiness Near Antonyms approximation, roundness; falseness, falsity, incorrectness, wrongness; carelessness, guesswork, looseness; indefiniteness, vagueness Antonyms coarseness, impreciseness, imprecision, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, roughness
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