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Webster 1913 Edition
Accuracy
Ac′cu-ra-cy
(#; 277)
, Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accuracy
AC'CURACY
,Noun.
1.
Exactness; exact conformity to truth; or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. The accuracy of ideas or opinions is conformity to truth. The value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy.2.
Closeness; tightness; as a tube sealed with accuracy.Definition 2024
accuracy
accuracy
English
Noun
accuracy (plural accuracies)
- The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
- The value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
- 1827, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind:
- Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
- 1856, Dionysius Lardner, Popular Lectures on Science and Art:
- The efficiency of the instrument will also depend upon the accuracy with which the piston fits the bottom and sides of the barrel. When the piston is depressed to the bottom, it is considered in theory to be in absolute contact, so as to exclude every particle of air from the space between it and the bottom.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VIII”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- 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.
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state of being accurate
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