Word: precisionism
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Clicking off resolutions and decisions with well-drilled, democratic precision, the Southern Baptists also:
One cold, dark, blustery winter morning, my gangling roommate took the window route with a paratrooper's magnificent form and timing precision. But a sudden gust blew the heavy dormers shut on his flying overcoat tails and left him hung corseted, pitiful and helpless against the barracks' wall...
A monster electronic clock, the last word in precision timers, went into operation last week at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The secret of the new clock's accuracy is a set of four quartz crystals, about the size of matchbooks, which vibrate in controlled temperature...
Precision of wording is necessary in good writing; by choosing words that exactly convey the desired meaning one can avoid: a) duplicity, b) incongruity, c) complexity, d) ambiguity, e) implications.
"For every successive increase in the pressure range, a price has to be paid in a diminution of the size of the apparatus...," he wrote describing the vessel in which he generated the pressure of 100,000 atmospheres. This chamber is only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter and...