precise measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreciseandmeasure
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precise
adjective
uk/prɪˈsaɪs/us/prəˈsaɪs/
exact ...
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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofpreciseandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprecise measure
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The lack of aprecisemeasureof the appropriate deforestation process is a serious limitation of previous studies on the topic.
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This provided a robust andprecisemeasureof the stimulus-response delay.
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Ideally, we would prefer a moreprecisemeasureof political, as opposed to bureaucratic, corruption.
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Practical complexity would be aprecisemeasureof times of calculus and sizes of memories, for some well-defined machines.
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Sentences were presented in fragments to obtain a moreprecisemeasureof reading-time costs at the disambiguating region. 15.
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The estimate of inbreeding based on the migration matrix model is only approximate, because noprecisemeasureof the effective sizes of the villages is available.
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There is, therefore, noprecisemeasureand accordingly no reliable statistics.
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I am not very much concerned about theprecisemeasureof certainty when it gets to the jury.
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I agree of course that this does not give us aprecisemeasureof the value of a council's housing stock.
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I regret that noprecisemeasureof the growth of the service will be available until we have the full figures.
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There is noprecisemeasureof the resource implications of medical advance, which can both raise or lower costs of treatment and care.
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There is no single orprecisemeasureof police morale.
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They did not provide aprecisemeasureof the returns.
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Virtually the onlyprecisemeasureis to prohibit the use of phosphates in detergents.
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There are occasions when it is necessary to have aprecisemeasureof the toxicity of a substance.
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Such data are not yet available and, for a number of reasons, will not provide aprecisemeasureof the accuracy of the assumptions in the circular.
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It is clear that thisprecisemeasurebefore us this afternoon was not in the election manifesto, and therefore technically there is not a mandate for it.
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It secures the exclusion from the return of payments which are of theprecisemeasureof the expenses actually incurred, whether they are moneys spent or payments in advance.
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A "rounded" teaspoonful is a larger but lessprecisemeasure, produced without levelling the ingredient off nor heaping it as high as possible.
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