definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
2.
being exactly that and neither more nor less: a precise temperature; a precise amount.
3.
being just that and no other: the precise dress she had wanted.
4.
definite or exact in statement, as a person.
5.
carefully distinct: precise articulation.
6.
exact in measuring, recording, etc.: a precise instrument.
7.
excessively or rigidly particular: precise observance of regulations; precise grooming.
Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L praecīsus curtailed, brief, orig. ptp. of praecīdere to cut off, cut short, equiv. to prae-pre-+ -cīsus, comb. form of caesus, ptp. of caedere to cut
Clearly expressed or delineated; definite: The victim gave a precise description of the suspect.
Exact, as in performance, execution, or amount; accurate or correct: a precise measurement; a precise instrument.
Strictly distinguished from others; very: at that precise moment.
Distinct and correct in sound or meaning: precise pronunciation; precise prose.
Conforming strictly to rule or proper form: "The setting up of this Maypole was a lamentable spectacle to the precise separatists that lived at New Plymouth"(Thomas Morton).
[Middle English, exact, from Old French precis, condensed, precisely fixed, from Latin praecīsus, past participle of praecīdere, to shorten : prae-, pre- + caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.] pre·cise'ness n.
[pri-sahys] 
