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accuracy

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES unerring accuracy ▪ He passes the ball with unerring accuracy . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE factual ▪ The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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" [syn: truth ] [ant: inaccuracy ] (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from accurate + -cy .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accuracy \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 ...

Usage examples of accuracy.

Beautiful where it finds something accordant with the Ideal-Form within itself, using this Idea as a canon of accuracy in its decision.

A white amaurosis, apart from being etymologically a contradiction, would also be a neurological impossibility, since the brain, which would be unable to perceive the images, forms and colours of reality, would likewise be incapable, in a manner of speaking, of being covered in white, a continuous white, like a white painting without tonalities, the colours, forms and images that reality itself might present to someone with normal vision, however difficult it may be to speak, with any accuracy, of normal vision.

By looking vertically down, its angular or lateral movements could be measured with accuracy.

The accuracy of the radar-COtitrolled main batteries, in the first gunnery exercises he had ordered, astounded him.

Finally, with European assistance, Iraq had achieved an important technological breakthrough, modifying its old Russian-made Scud ballistic missiles to more than double their normal range of three hundred kilometers, albeit with less accuracy and a lighter warhead.

Martin and Garret pulled arrows from back quivers in fluid motions, set arrow to bowstring, and let fly with uncommon quickness and accuracy.

My instructions to the captain were attended to with the most perfect accuracy, for scarcely had my foot indented the sand when the four sixpounders of the brigantine quite gravely rolled out their brute thunder.

My instructions to the captain were attended to with the most perfect accuracy, for scarcely had my foot indented the sand when the four six-pounders of the brigantine quite gravely rolled out their brute thunder.

Mints and places where bullion assays must be made with the highest attainable accuracy, the surcharge is determined by experiment, and the proper correction is made in the reports on the bullion.

Though the first edition of the present work was quite large, yet no challenge of the accuracy of any of its statements concerning experimentation upon human beings or animals has yet appeared.

British Horological Institute on the further possibilities of using electricity as a way of refining the accuracy and running time of clocks.

The survival of Pioneer 10 and 11 through the Jovian magnetosphere was more the result of good luck and good engineering than of the accuracy of pre-Pioneer magnetospheric theories.

The ringing sets up something similar to a mental moire fringe interference pattern from which an experienced man can read the time differential with almost micrometer accuracy.

But inside each one the moving parts fitted with micrometric accuracy and with hair-spring balance.

Firstly, a series of enormous halls had been hollowed out of its interior, then a precisely weighed and shaped piece of the matter mined from one of those giant hangars had been aimed with millimetric accuracy and fired at Pittance by the GSV, leaving a small new crater on the surface of the world, exactly as though it had been struck by another, smaller, piece of interstellar debris.