accuracy (akurasi)

[ rare L. accuratio.] The condition or quality of being accurate; extreme precision or exactne ; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; correctne : as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy. The schoolmen tried to reason mathematically about things which had not been, and perhaps could not be, defined with mathematical accuracy . Macaulay, Utilitarian Theory of Government. = Syn. Accuratene , exactne , exactitude, precision, carefulne , care, nicene , nicety. accurate (ak'u-rat), a . [=Pg. accurado = It. accurato , accuratus , prepared with care, exact, pp. of accurare , prepare with care, ad , to, curare , take care, cur a , care, pains: see cure.] 1. Characterized by extreme care; hence, in exact conformity to truth, or to a standard or rule, or to a model; free from error or defect; exact: as, an accurate account; accurate measure; an accurate expre ion; an accurate calculator or observer. Our American character is marked by a more than aver age delight in accurate perception, which is shown by the currency of the byword, "No mistake." Emerson, E ays, 1st ser., p. 207. 2†. Determinate; precisely fixed. Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon . = Syn. 1. Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise, Nice, careful, particular, true, faithful, strict, painstaking, unerring. Of these words correct is the feeblest; it is barely more than not faulty, as tested by some standard or rule. Accurate implies careful and succe ful endeavor to be correct: as, an accurate accountant, and, by extension of the meaning, accurate accounts; an accurate likene . Exact is stronger, carrying the accuracy down to minute details: as, an exact likene . It is more commonly used of things, while precise is used of persons: as, the exact truth; he is very precise in his ways. Precise may represent an exce of nicety, but exact and accurate rarely do so: as, she is prim and precise. As applied more specifi cally to the proce es and results of thought and invest i mulative judgment, in law, a second judgment against a person, the effect of which is to begin after the first has expired. accumulatively (a-kū'mū-lā-tiv-li), adv. In an accumulative manner; by heaping; in heaps. accumulativene (a-kü'mū-la-tiv-nes), n. The quality of being accumulative; tendency to accumulate.