scientific precision

collocation in English

meaningsofscientificandprecision

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scientific
adjective
uk
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/us
/ˌsaɪənˈtɪf.ɪk/
relating to science, or using the organized methods ...
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precision
noun[U]
uk
/prɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈsɪʒ.ən/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofscientificandprecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscientific precision

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I understand as well as anyone that the term 'scientificprecision' is philosophically loaded and is politically charged.
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The truth lies best in an alliance between those who are affected by archaeological opinions and those who usescientificprecisionto create them.
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He believes that an approach to structure and meaning, and to some extent to evaluation, can be made with somescientificprecision, within a realist philosophical framework.
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What a departure from thescientificprecisionwith which monetarism was ushered in.
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I am not speaking with anyscientificprecision, but generally.
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I need hardly say that valuation for rating purposes is not a matter capable ofscientificprecision.
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Doctors, psychologists, lawyers, teachers and priests would be hard put to it to define normalcy withscientificprecision.
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It is an important art, but it does not lend itself to thescientificprecisionand formulae that some believe it should.
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We do not accept that radioactivity and the cumulative effects of radioactive poisons can be the subject of that muchscientificprecision.
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To have taken a figure upon the public in pretending to ascientificprecisionwhich, of course, these figures do not possess.
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They are quite definite, and expressed withscientificprecision.
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This type of experiment cannot be conducted withscientificprecision, but we can set a series of tests by which it may be judged.
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This list includes machinery, both electrical and non-electrical, all chemicals,scientificprecision instruments and smaller but important items like glass, glassware, photographic supplies and domestic refrigerators.
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It is a matter ofscientificprecision.
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Thus, it was established, withscientificprecision, how long it took death to come after scaldings at different temperatures.
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Some propositions -- including many involving values, emotions, feelings, attitudes and judgments -- can't be conveyed through communicating practical information or withscientificprecision.
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From his voyage, the resolution of the problem of longitude was evident and mapping attained ascientificprecision.
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