precise

accurate, exact, precise, right, true, correct

形容词 precise:

1. sharply exact or accurate or delimited
2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
   同义词：accurate, exact

1. I am not clear about the precise bearing of the word in this passage.
   我说不准这个字在这段文章里的确切意义是什么。
2. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
   他知道什么时候该不说话的那心理上精确的一息间。
3. The state or quality of being precise; exactness.
   精确精确的状态或性质; 准确性
4. At the precise moment that I put my foot on the step, the bus started.
   恰恰就在我登上公共汽车踏板的时候，车子开动了。

pre.cise

adj.（形容词）
Clearly expressed or delineated; definite:
清晰的，确切的：表达或描绘很清楚的；确定的：
例句：
The victim was able to give a precise description of the suspect.
受害者能够清晰地描绘嫌疑犯

Exact, as in performance, execution, or amount; accurate or correct:
精确的，正确的：如在实行、实施或数量上很准确的；精确的或准确的：
例句：
a precise measurement; a precise instrument.
精确的测量；精密仪器

Strictly distinguished from others; very:
明确的：严格区别于其他的；正是所要的：
例句：
at that precise moment.
就在那一时刻

Distinct and correct in sound or meaning:
清晰的，无误的：声音或意义清楚而正确的：
例句：
precise pronunciation; precise prose.
正确的发音；严格无误的散文

Conforming strictly to rule or proper form:
正统的：严格合乎规则或适当形式的：
例句：
.The setting up of this Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise separatists that lived at New Plymouth.(Thomas Morton)
.对于生活在新普利茅斯的正统分离主义者来说，这个五朔节花柱的建立实在是令人伤心的悲惨场面.(托马斯·莫顿)

来源：
Middle English [exact]
中古英语 [精确的]
from Old French precis [condensed, precisely fixed]
源自 古法语 precis [凝结的，明显稳定的]
from Latin praecosus [past participle of] praecodere [to shorten]
源自 拉丁语 praecosus [] praecodere的过去分词 [缩短]
prae- [pre-]
prae- [前缀，表.先于….]
caedere [to cut] * see ka…-id-
caedere [剪切] *参见 ka…-id-

【引伸】
precise.ness
n.（名词）