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Precision
The repeatability of an instrument, measured by the mean deviation of a set of measurements from the average value. Contrast this to accuracy. As an example of the difference, an instrument can measure a quantity a hundred times and if all the measurements are within a percent of each other it is a precise instrument, but if it has measured the correct value as, say, twice the correct value every time then it is not an accurate instrument or, alternatively, it is precisely wrong.
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