What is meant by the precision of a measuring instrument?
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The precision of an instrument is equal to the ratio dx/x of the overall error dx and the value x of the quantity to be measured. It characterises the quality of an instrument from the point of view of errors; the closer the results are to the true value, the greater the precision (i.e. dx is small).
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