Precision, precise or precisely may refer to:

Arts and media

* ''Precision'' (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada * "Precision" (song), by Big Sean * ''Precisely'' (sketch), a dramatic sketch by the English playwright Harold Pinter

Science, and technology, and mathematics

Mathematics and computing (general)

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 *

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 *

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 *

Precision (computer science) In computer science, the precision of a numerical quantity is a measure of the detail in which the quantity is expressed. This is usually measured in bits, but sometimes in decimal digits. It is related to precision in mathematics, which describe ...

, 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 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 * 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 * F. E. Baker Ltd, maker of ''Precision'' motorcycle and cycle-car engines pre-WW1 *

Precisely (company) Precisely Holdings, LLC, doing business as Precisely, is a software company specializing in data integrity tools, and also providing big data, high-speed sorting, ETL, data integration, data quality, data enrichment, and location intelligen ...

, formerly Syncsort

Other uses

* Precision Club, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge * Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy *

Fender Precision Bass The Fender Precision Bass (or "P-Bass") is a model of bass guitar, electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. In its standard, post-1957 configuration, the Precision Bass is a solid body, four-stringed instrument ...