All 4 Uses of
precise
in
Ender's Game
- ...a thin line so precise that he could make it spiral seventy-nine times from the center to the edge of the desk without the lines ever touching or overlapping.
Chpt 1 *precise = exact
- It was harder to make precise movements, since the suits bent just a bit slower, resisted a bit more than any clothing they had ever worn before.
Chpt 6
- he doesn't want a totally untrained little kid start screwing up his precision maneuvers.
Chpt 7precision = the quality of exactness or accuracy
- Toons that couldn't see each other practiced performing precision operations together with exact timing;
Chpt 7
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.