accuracy
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for accuracy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Pronunciation
- Received Pronunciation (UK): [ˈækjʊrəsɪ]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/
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Noun
accuracy (countable and uncountable, plural accuracies)
- The state of being accurate; being free from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; correctness
- The value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
- 1827, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind:
- Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
- 1856, Dionysius Lardner, Popular Lectures on Science and Art:
- The efficiency of the instrument will also depend upon the accuracy with which the piston fits the bottom and sides of the barrel. When the piston is depressed to the bottom, it is considered in theory to be in absolute contact, so as to exclude every particle of air from the space between it and the bottom.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
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Translations
state of being accurate
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Further reading
- accuracy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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