Abstract
Precision in measurement underlies all scientific discoveries. This chapter addresses a number of subjects that appear to present difficulty with respect to precise word usage: articles, reference words, unnecessary words, and redundant words. Articles - the, a, an - are used to modify some nouns or noun phrases. Two categories of nouns - nouns that indicate a condition and nouns that are nebulous - are indefinite in nearly all contexts. Nouns such as feasibility or efficiency indicate a condition (i.e., the condition of being feasible, the condition of being efficient). Nouns such as energy or information are somewhat nebulous - that is, they usually stand for an indefinite collection of things. Reference words - usually pronouns such as it, its, this, these, those, their - are used as shorthand substitutes for other nouns, noun phrases, or ideas.
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