Definition of Precise

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Precise

Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.

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Precise Quotations

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Eric Hoffer

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
Friedrich August von Hayek

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Donald Rumsfeld

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Charles Babbage

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

Precise Translations

precise in Afrikaans is juis
precise in Dutch is precies, scherp, juist, minutieus
precise in Finnish is tarkka
precise in German is gewissenhaft, genau
precise in Italian is minuzioso
precise in Portuguese is preciso
precise in Spanish is preciso
precise in Swedish is exakt, precisera, precis

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