Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

multiprecision

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mul-ti-preci-sion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Involving more than one level of mathematical precision.

Example Sentences

"Since such multiprecision computations are time-consuming, we apply to this problem parallel programming techniques and thus the execution time of the computations is drastically reduced."

Etymology

From multi- + precision.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: multi

Questions

What does multiprecision mean?: Involving more than one level of mathematical precision.
Where does multiprecision come from?: From multi- + precision.

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