Precision vs Underdescribed - What's the difference?
precision | underdescribed |
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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=John Sinnott
, title=Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan
, work=BBC Sport
Not described with sufficient precision.
*{{quote-journal, 2008, date=October 22, R. W. Fischer, Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9128-8, volume=69, issue=3, pages=
, passage=LaPorte shows that some of these cases—like Putnam’s Twin Earth—are seriously underdescribed ; others—like the jade/jadeite/nephrite example–are historically inaccurate. }}
As adjectives the difference between precision and underdescribed
is that precision is used for exact or precise measurement while underdescribed is not described with sufficient precision.As a noun precision
is the state of being precise or exact; exactness.precision
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(wikipedia precision)Noun
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(-)citation, page= , passage=But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.}}