accuracy
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
accuracy
- The state of being accurate; being free from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; correctness
- The value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
- 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.
- French: exactitude, précision
- German: Genauigkeit, Sorgfalt, Exaktheit, Richtigkeit , Fehlerfreiheit
- Italian: esattezza, precisione, accuratezza, acribia
- Portuguese: exatidão, precisão, correção, apuramento
- Russian: то́чность
- Spanish: exactitud, precisión
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