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ACCURATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
Example:
an accurate scale
Classified under:
Similar:
close; faithful (marked by fidelity to an original)
dead-on (accurate and to the point)
hi-fi; high-fidelity (characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction)
surgical (performed with great precision)
straight (in keeping with the facts)
dead on target; true (accurately placed or thrown)
right; veracious (precisely accurate)
Also:
correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)
exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)
precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)
Attribute:
accuracy; truth (the quality of being near to the true value)
Antonym:
inaccurate (not accurate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
Example:
a precise measurement
Synonyms:
accurate; exact; precise
Classified under:
Similar:
correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)
Context examples:
Additionally, GOES-R’s improved rainfall estimates will lead to more timely and accurate flood warnings.
(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)
Barite, a mineral compound of barium, is now a direct and accurate proxy for marine productivity, marine climate, and marine life evolution in general.
(Researchers discover the oceanic precipitation mechanism for barium, which is a proxy for marine bacterial productivity, University of Granada)
Subjects underwent testing for attention, memory, and cognitive throughput, i.e., how fast and accurate the brain performs of cognitive tests, were administered throughout the experiment to measure cognitive performance.
(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Providing accurate information about metabolizable energy (ME) content-calories-of foods is important for reliable food labeling and has health ramifications.
(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
A tablet composed of a large amount of active and/or inert ingredient(s) that can be used in compounding prescriptions to ensure accurate quantity of ingredient within the final, compounded form .
(Dispensing Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
A developmental morphogenetic process that establishes the basic configuration of cellular organization necessary for further and accurate development of the spatial arrangement of embryonic tissue along the dorsal-ventral axis.
(Dorsal-Ventral Pattern Formation, NCI Thesaurus)
A more accurate predictor of cancer than either a patient's age or his total PSA level.
(Percent Free Prostate-Specific Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)
Pattern Formation is a developmental morphogenetic process that establishes basic configurations of cellular organization necessary for further and accurate development of the spatial arrangements of embryonic tissue.
(Pattern Formation, NCI Thesaurus)
The CIS serves as the NCI's primary mechanism to disseminate accurate up-to-date information to the American public at the communit
(Office of Cancer Information, Communication, and Education, NCI Thesaurus)
