About The Word Accuracy
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Accuracy
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What's The Definition Of Accuracy?
[n] the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account"
[n] (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy" Synonyms | Synonyms for Accuracy: truth Related Terms | Find terms related to Accuracy: absoluteness | attention to detail | attention to fact | care for truth | circumstantiality | conscientiousness | correctness | criticality | criticalness | definiteness | delicacy | detail | exactingness | exactitude | exactness | exquisiteness | faithfulness | faultlessness | fidelity | fineness | finicality | finicalness | finickiness | finickingness | flawlessness | fussiness | literalism | literality | literalness | mathematical precision | meticulousness | minuteness | minuteness of detail | niceness | nicety | particularity | particularness | perfection | preciseness | precisianism | precision | punctiliousness | punctuality | refinement | right | rightness | rigidity | rigidness | rigor | rigorousness | scrupulosity | scrupulousness | severity | specificity | strictness | subtlety | textualism | the letter See Also | exactitude | exactness | fidelity | quality Accuracy In Webster's Dictionary \Ac"cu*ra*cy\ (#; 277), n. [See {Accurate}.]
The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this
exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to
truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety;
correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its
accuracy.
The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think,
to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
--Reid.
The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides.
--Lardner.
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