deficiency vs precision

deficiency

noun
  • Inadequacy or incompleteness. 

  • An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health. 

  • The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system. 

  • The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree. 

precision

noun
  • The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably. 

  • The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently. 

  • A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely. 

  • The state of being precise or exact; exactness. 

adj
  • Made, or characterized by accuracy. 

  • Used for exact or precise measurement. 

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