{
    "term": "precision",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the quality of being exact, accurate and careful",
            "sensetop": "with precision",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her writing is imaginative but lacks precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He chose his words with precision.",
                    "contextForm": "with precision"
                },
                {
                    "text": "done with mathematical precision"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Historians can’t estimate the date **with any (degree of) precision**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "precision instruments/tools"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Chimps are able to manipulate objects with a high degree of precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He organized the team with military precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The captain struck again with deadly precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The movements are executed with the utmost precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The rebels launched missiles with pinpoint precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We can now choose our targets with greater precision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "surgery which requires great precision"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The buildings were neatly laid out with almost mathematical precision."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "accuracy",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["absolute", "deadly", "perfect"],
                "… of precision": ["degree"],
                "verb + precision": ["call for", "demand", "require"],
                "precision + noun": ["engineering", "instrument", "tool"],
                "preposition": ["with precision", "precision  in"],
                "phrases": ["a lack of precision"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prɪˈsɪʒn/",
                "audio": "pr/precision/precision__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prɪˈsɪʒn/",
                "audio": "pr/precision/precision__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 18th cent.: from French précision or Latin praecisio(n-), from praecidere ‘cut off’, from prae ‘in advance’ + caedere ‘to cut’."
}