All 5 Uses of
precise
in
Brave New World
- "Horrible; precisely," said the Controller.
p. 45..8precisely = exactly
- That's precisely why I don't want to come again.
p. 172..7 *
- 'On the Use of Rhymes in Moral Propaganda and Advertisement,' to be precise.
p. 180..6precise = exact
- He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories–back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality–but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.
p. 204..7precisely = exactly
- "Writing when there's nothing to say …"
"Precisely."
p. 221..3
Definition:
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(precise as in: about noon; 12:03 to be precise) exact (accurate)editor's notes: In the fields of science, engineering, and statistics, precise and accurate are not properly used as synonyms the way they are in general usage.
If you throw darts at a dartboard and keep missing the bullseye, but hit in the same place on the dartboard each time, you would be described as precise, but not accurate.
If you seldom hit the bullseye, but tended to get close each time, you would be described as accurate, but not precise.
Finally, if you hit the bullseye each time, you would be considered both accurate and precise.