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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Accurate \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: accurate adj 1: 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" [ant: {inaccurate}] 2: exact in performance or amount; strictly correct; "a precise instrument"; "a precise measurement" [syn: {exact}, {precise}]
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