precisions
Saypri-SIZH-uhnz/pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ənz/
- 1Plural of precision.
The two instruments offered different precisions for the same measurement.
Engineers documented the precisions achieved by each calibration method.
Note
A plural that only makes sense when precision is counted, and it earns its keep in measurement: how consistently a reading can be reproduced, or how many significant digits a value can reliably carry. That is why two instruments can have different precisions. The attributive use, as in a precision instrument, never takes this form, because there the word works as an adjective.
precisions is a form of precision
precision, noun: The state of being exact, and in particular of being both exact and accurate. Full entry
- Forms
- precisionprecisions plural
- Spelling
- precision → precisions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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