Precision Explained

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, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter
• Significant figures, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement
• Precision and recall, in information retrieval: the proportion of relevant documents returned
• Precision (computer science), 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, 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), formerly Syncsort

Other uses

• Precision Club, a bidding system in the game of contract bridge
• Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy
• Fender Precision Bass, by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

See also

• Precisionism, an artistic movement also known as Cubist Realism
• Precisionist (1981–2006), an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse