pre-, prae-

1. Clarity as a consequence of precision.
2. The quality of being reproducible in an amount or performance: "She handled it with the preciseness of an automaton." "Note the meticulous precision of his measurements."
3. Synonym: precision; antonym: impreciseness.

1. The quality of being sharply or exactly defined; for example, a measurement with three significant figures is more precise than a measurement with two; a degree of accuracy.
2. In statistics, the extent to which a measurement procedure gives the same results when repeated under identical conditions.
3. Someone who is concerned about correct rules and behavior; especially, in moral and religious matters.
4. Someone who is strict and precise in adherence to established rules, forms, or standards.

A person who attaches great or too great importance to precision.

1. Exactness or accuracy.
2. In mathematics, the accuracy to which a calculation is performed, specifying the number of significant digits with which the result is expressed.
3. Allowing for, made with, or requiring great exactness or accuracy.
4. Punctiliousness; strictness: precision in one's business dealings.
5. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by precision.

1. Someone who insists on or strives for absolute precision.
2. Someone who values precision; a purist.

Before a disease becomes clinically recognizable.

1. To make impossible, especially beforehand.
2. To keep from happening or arising.
3. To have the effect of preventing.
4. To prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; to make impossible: "The judge stated that insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction."
5. To exclude or debar from something: "The physical disability of the student precludes an athletic career for him."

1. Made impossible, especially beforehand.
2. Kept from happening or arising.
3. Having the effect of preventing.
4. Hindered from entering or enjoying something because of previous obstacles.

1. The act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively.
2. The act of shutting out or preventing from access or possession of something.
3. The state of being prevented from entering the possession or enjoyment of something.

1. Made impossible.
2. Shutting out, or tending to preclude; hindering by previous obstacles.

Born or hatched in a condition requiring relatively little parental care, as by having hair or feathers, open eyes, and the ability to move around.

Water birds, reptiles, and herd animals usually have precocial young.

1. Developed more than is usual at a certain age.
2. Before cooking or before being cooked.
3. Premature; development of mind and/or body before one's age.
4. Relating to or having flowers that blossom before the leaves emerge.

Some species of magnolias are precocious.

Unusually early development of mental or physical traits before the normal process.

1. Of the nature of, or giving, foreknowledge.
2. The extrasensory perception of a future event.

The neuropsychiatric state preceding coma, as in hepatic encephalopathy.