Precision

"Precisely" redirects here. For the Harold Pinter sketch, see Precisely (sketch).

Concepts

• 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 percentage of relevant documents returned
• Precision (computer science), a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed
  • Arbitrary-precision arithmetic, methods for computing with big numbers
• Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision
• Precision planning, a statistical tool used in estimation statistics
• Precision agriculture, an agricultural concept
• Precision engineering, an architectural concept

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
• Precise Software, a Transaction Performance Management Company

Computing

• Dell Precision, a line of Dell workstations
• Precision Architecture, former name for PA-RISC, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard
• Precise Pangolin (or "Precise"), the codename for the 2012 stable release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system

Other

• Precision Club, a bidding system in a the game of contract bridge
• Precision (march), the official marching music of the Royal Military College of Canada
• Precision 15, a self-bailing dinghy
• Precision bombing, used for military purposes
• 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