accuracy
nounEtymology
* First attested in the 1660s. * accurate + -cy
Definitions
The state of being accurate
The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness
- Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
- 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
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
- The jury doubted the accuracy of the witness' comments.
The neighborhood
- synonymcorrectness
- synonymtruthfulness
- synonymnicety
- antonyminaccuracy
- neighborprecision
- neighborintegrity
- neighborexactness
- neighborfidelity
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at accuracy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at accuracy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at accuracy
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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