multiprecision

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adjective

Involving more than one level of mathematical precision.

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Meanings

adjectivemultiprecision (not comparable)
  1. not comparableInvolving more than one level of mathematical precision.

    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.

    2016, Vassilis S. Geroyannis, Vasileios G. Karageorgopoulos, “A parallel code for multiprecision computations of the Lane-Emden differential equation”, in arXiv

Origin

From multi- + precision.

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multiprecision. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiprecision

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Chicago

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