Precision, precise or precisely may refer to:
Arts and media
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''Precision'' (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada
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"Precision" (song), by Big Sean
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''Precisely'' (sketch), a dramatic sketch by the English playwright Harold Pinter
Science, and technology, and mathematics
Mathematics and computing (general)
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Accuracy and precision
Accuracy and precision are two measures of ''observational error''.
''Accuracy'' is how close a given set of measurements (observations or readings) are to their ''true value''.
''Precision'' is how close the measurements are to each other.
The ...
, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter
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Significant figures
Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits, are specific digits within a number that is written in positional notation that carry both reliability and necessity in conveying a particular quantity. When presenting the outcom ...
, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement
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Precision and recall
In pattern recognition, information retrieval, object detection and classification (machine learning), precision and recall are performance metrics that apply to data retrieved from a collection, corpus or sample space.
Precision (also calle ...
, in information retrieval: the proportion of relevant documents returned
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Precision (computer science), a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed
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Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision
Computing products
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Dell Precision, a line of Dell workstations
* Precision Architecture, former name for
PA-RISC
Precision Architecture reduced instruction set computer, RISC (PA-RISC) or Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP/PA or simply HPPA), is a computer, general purpose computer instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard f ...
, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
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Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", Canonical's sixteenth release of Ubuntu
Companies
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Precision Air, an airline based in Tanzania
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Precision Castparts Corp., a casting company based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States
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Precision Drilling, the largest drilling-rig contractor in Canada
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Precision Monolithics, an American company that produced linear semiconductors
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Precision Talent, a voice-over talent-management company
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F. E. Baker Ltd, maker of ''Precision'' motorcycle and cycle-car engines pre-WW1
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Precisely (company), formerly Syncsort
Other uses
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Precision Club, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge
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Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy
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Fender Precision Bass, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
See also
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Precisionism, an artistic movement also known as Cubist Realism
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Precisionist (1981–2006), an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse
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