precision (noun)
41chemical balance — noun a beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis • Syn: ↑analytical balance • Hypernyms: ↑beam balance * * * noun : a balance used in chemical work; especially : an analytical balance * * * …
42ground-controlled approach — noun aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar • Syn: ↑GCA • Hypernyms: ↑aircraft landing, ↑airplane landing * * * noun also ground control approach …
43surgical strike — noun an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to deal only with a specific target • Hypernyms: ↑strike * * * surgical strike UK US noun [countable] [singular surgical strike plural surgica …
44white room — noun a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria; used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment • Syn: ↑clean room • Hypernyms: ↑room • Hyponyms: ↑laminar flow clean room * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ ˌ ̷ ̷ noun …
45surface plate — noun : a steel instrument of precision having a dressed flat surface or sometimes two surfaces at right angles and used as a standard of flatness * * * Mach. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat …
46accuracy — noun (plural cies) Date: 1662 1. freedom from mistake or error ; correctness 2. a. conformity to truth or to a standard or model ; exactness b …
47atomic clock — noun Date: 1938 a precision clock that depends for its operation on an electrical oscillator regulated by the natural vibration frequencies of an atomic system (as a beam of cesium atoms) …
48clean room — noun Date: 1963 a room for the manufacture or assembly of objects (as precision parts) that is maintained at a high level of cleanliness by special means …
49clockwork — noun Date: 1628 1. the inner workings of something 2. the machinery (as springs and a train of gears) that run a clock; also a similar mechanism running a mechanical device (as a toy) 3. the precision, regularity, or …
50definitude — noun Etymology: irregular from definite Date: 1836 precision, definiteness …
