Precision vs Prevision - What's the difference?
precision | prevision |
The state of being precise or exact; exactness.
The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
(mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
Used for exact or precise measurement.
Made, or characterized by accuracy.
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Advance knowledge; foresight.
*1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
*:it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
*:The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and their is no prevision of their obsolescence.
A prediction.
To predict or envision the future.
As nouns the difference between precision and prevision
is that precision is the state of being precise or exact; exactness while prevision is advance knowledge; foresight.As an adjective precision
is used for exact or precise measurement.As a verb prevision is
to predict or envision the future.precision
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