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How to spell precision

Precision is spelled P-R-E-C-I-S-I-O-N.

What it means: The quality of being exact.

In a sentence: The artist painted with great precision to make sure every detail was perfect. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: precisely, imprecise, imprecision, precision-engineering, accuracy. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Precision” comes from the Latin verb *praecīdĕre*, meaning “to cut off,” through French *précision*. The idea is that you ‘cut away’ anything extra, leaving only what is exact and accurate.

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