Definitions for: Accurate


[adj] conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"
[adj] exact in performance or amount; strictly correct; "a precise instrument"; "a precise measurement"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ac"cu*rate, a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr.
accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura
care. See Cure.]
1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some
standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free
from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate
calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression,
knowledge, etc.

2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]

Those conceive the celestial bodies have more
accurate influences upon these things below.
--Bacon.

Syn: Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.

Usage: Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. 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
redundance; 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.

Synonyms: close, dead on target, dead-on(a), faithful, hi-fi, high-fidelity, straight, true, veracious

Antonyms: inaccurate

See Also: correct, exact, precise, right

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