All 17 Uses of
precise
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Each had told Silas the exact same thing—that the keystone was ingeniously hidden at a precise location inside one of Paris's ancient churches—the Eglise de Saint-Sulpice.†
Chpt 2
- That, monsieur, is precisely the question you are here to answer.†
Chpt 6
- Her grandfather's voice had called out from beyond with chilling precision.†
Chpt 21-22
- But when Silas added that the brothers had all given him a precise location, with relation to a brass line running through Saint-Sulpice, the Teacher had gasped with revelation.†
Chpt 21-22
- With noiseless precision, the heavy wall slid sideways.†
Chpt 31-32
- Clement's Machiavellian operation came off with clockwork precision.†
Chpt 37-38
- That was precisely the reason the Teacher suggested Aringarosa get the money in Vatican Bank bonds.†
Chpt 41-42
- Then, with computer precision, the claw grasped the heavy handle and hoisted the crate vertically.†
Chpt 43-44
- Langdon began to stand up but paused, spying the small, spent pistol shell on the floor beside the truck's precision-crafted doorsill.†
Chpt 49-50
- Most Priory academics, myself included, anticipated the brotherhood's release would coincide precisely with the millennium.†
Chpt 61-62
- Precisely.†
Chpt 65-66 *
- But I know in precisely which crypt we should look.†
Chpt 77-78
- Precisely.†
Chpt 81-82
- So what precisely is your concern?†
Chpt 89-90
- "Leave him precisely where he is," the officer commanded.†
Chpt 93-94
- Teabing had displayed ingenious precision in formulating a plan that protected his innocence at every turn.†
Chpt 103-104
- The chapel's geographic coordinates fall precisely on the north-south meridian that runs through Glastonbury.†
Chpt 103-104
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.