Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

precise

[adjective, not verb; see also: accurate, rigorous, concrete, specific, very]

This is made more precise by the following definition. [Not: “This is precised'']

It is important that the orders of F and G are comparable, a statement made more precise by the following lemma.

To be precise, A is only left-continuous at 0.

Put this way, the question is not precise enough.

Actually, the proof gives an even more precise conclusion:......


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