Accuracy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 of testimony depends on its
     accuracy.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think,
           to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
                                                    --Reid.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides.
                                                    --Lardner.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  accuracy
       n 1: 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}]
       2: (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a
          number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure
          time with much greater accuracy"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "accuracy":
     absoluteness, attention to detail, attention to fact,
     care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness,
     criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail,
     exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness,
     faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness,
     finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism,
     literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness,
     minuteness, minuteness of detail, niceness, nicety, particularity,
     particularness, perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision,
     punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, right, rightness,
     rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity,
     scrupulousness, severity, specificity, strictness, subtlety,
     textualism, the letter
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  accuracy
       
           How close to the real value a measurement is.
       
          Compare {precision}.
       
          (1998-04-19)