precise measurement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreciseandmeasurement
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precise
adjective
uk/prɪˈsaɪs/us/prəˈsaɪs/
exact ...
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measurement
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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We argued that the new technique permits rapid andprecisemeasurementof cone weights.
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Orthogonal drawings - for example, plan and section - are additional tools for analysis andprecisemeasurement.
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The lily house was the discrete enclosure that rendered the plant's life and the interior amenable to observation andprecisemeasurement.
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This isolated placental model allowsprecisemeasurementof umbilical placental hemodynamic characteristics and placental gas exchange under various conditions.
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Switched singleelectrode voltage-clamp amplifiers allowprecisemeasurementof gap junction conductance.
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At this stage, theprecisemeasurementof this block of variables is unspecified.
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However, the need forprecisemeasurement, and the need to simultaneously deal with large numbers of interactions in macromolecular systems, have also led to the development of more sophisticated procedures.
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Unfortunately, aprecisemeasurementof the absolute orientation of a walking robot in single support for example is, by a technical point-of-view, quite difficult to get.
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Second, field conditions are rarely ideal, so thatprecisemeasurementand radiography of the face, or well-scaled somatotype photography, often prove to be difficult if not impossible.
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Although common devices were used, a highlyprecisemeasurementwith low noise was achieved due to the very good optical quality of the lenses and several camera calibration methods.
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Another is to increase our exports of the types of industrial equipment which depend onprecisemeasurement.
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We are talking not aboutprecisemeasurement, but about common sense.
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Results are not capable ofprecisemeasurement, but the response has been encouraging and further progress in all the fields concerned will be continuously watched.
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It is hard to arrive at anyprecisemeasurementof the present falling off in production.
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I doubt whether an attempt to subject them toprecisemeasurementwould assist greatly in solving the problem.
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Of its very nature, it is not susceptible ofprecisemeasurement.
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There is no such thing asprecisemeasurement.
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There is noprecisemeasurementor common model, but there is a common theme which depends upon an instinct of national interest.
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Precisemeasurementof efficiency is always difficult, but statistics on the cost of local authority houses show that cost per square foot is less by direct labour than by contractor.
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