accurate

• First attested in the 1610s.
• (exactness): First attested in the 1650s.
• From Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of accūrō (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”).
• See cure.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.jʊ.ɹət/, /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/

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accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)

1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

   an accurate calculator

   an accurate measure

   accurate knowledge

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page x:

     For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

   My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.

3. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
   • 1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things:

     for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have

• We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment.
• We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars.
• We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness.
• We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.

• correct
• exact
• just
• nice
• particular

• inaccurate

• accuracy
• accurately

• carucate

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accurate

1. Inflected form of accuraat

accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)

1. accurate

• accuratia

accurate f pl

1. feminine plural of accurato

• cacature

From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”)

accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)

1. carefully, precisely, exactly

• accūrātiō
• accūrātus
• accūrō

• accurate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accurate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• accurate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)