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multiprecision

multiprecision adjective: involving more than one level of mathematical precision.

Adjective

multiprecision (not comparable)

  1. Involving 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 of multiprecision

From multi- + precision.

Questions about multiprecision

What does multiprecision mean?
Multiprecision means involving more than one level of mathematical precision.
What part of speech is multiprecision?
Multiprecision is an adjective.

Words near multiprecision in the dictionary

  1. multipotentiostat
  2. multipotentiostats
  3. multipound
  4. multipower
  5. multipowered
  6. multiprecision
  7. multipreconditioned
  8. multipresence
  9. multipresent
  10. multiprimitive
  11. multiprint

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