Definition for PRE-CI'SION

PRE-CI'SION, n. [s as z. Fr. from L. præcisio.]

Exact limitation; exactness; accuracy. Precision in the use of words is a prime excellence in discourse; it is indispensable in controversy, in legal instruments and in mathematical calculations. Neither perspicuity nor precision should be sacrificed to ornament.

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