detail vs precision

detail

noun
  • A profusion of details. 

  • An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part. 

  • A part considered trivial enough to ignore. 

  • A person's name, address and other personal information. 

  • A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. 

  • A selected portion of a painting. 

  • A part small enough to escape casual notice. 

  • The small parts that can escape casual notice. 

  • A temporary unit or assignment. 

verb
  • To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/) 

  • To explain in detail. 

  • To assign to a particular task. 

precision

noun
  • The state of being precise or exact; exactness. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Made, or characterized by accuracy. 

  • Used for exact or precise measurement. 

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