All 8 Uses

precise
in
The Hunt for Red October
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Ramius watched with a pride he might have felt for his own son as the lieutenant gave the necessary orders with precision.†
Chpt 1.
Once he had told the captain in precise detail how he could convert this equipment into the world's finest stereo rig.†
Chpt 5. *
The navigator compared these highly precise local values to the values on his chart.†
Chpt 6.
He walked with a precise thirty-inch step, dignified as a flag officer should be, and Ryan decided that he was probably annoyed that his semisecret arrival prohibited the usual ceremony of bosun's pipes and side boys.†
Chpt 7.
They did their jobs with mechanistic precision.†
Chpt 7.
The vehicle's center of gravity was precisely marked, and they watched the mark approach a particular number engraved on the cargo bay floor.†
Chpt 9.
Jones was sitting as usual, hunched over his table, his left hand up commanding quiet as the towed array came around to a precise east-west azimuth at the end of its cable.†
Chpt 11.
The timing had to be precise.†
Chpt 17.

Definitions:

(1) (precise as in: about noon; 12:03 to be precise)
exact (accurate)

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.
(2) (precise as in: a precise personality)
meticulous (careful about details) -- especially to do things properly
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)