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A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39¡ Fahr., or 4¡ Centigrade; and from that point down to 32¡ Fahr., or 0¡ Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.
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n.
A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
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Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.
n.
The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.
adv.
Precisely; exactly; as, we shall start at ten o'clock sharp.
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Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.
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Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.
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Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
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Cutting off; (Logic) exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose; as, precisive censure; precisive abstraction.
adv.
In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
n.
A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
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Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
adv.
Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
n.
A precisian.
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The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.
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The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.
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Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
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Stiff; precise; formal.
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Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.
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Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
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