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Found 4 hits - Term: accuracy, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accuracy \ac"curacy\ ; 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
see also:
accurate 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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"
see also:
truth inaccuracy 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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




[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
accuracy
     
         how close to the real value a measurement is.
     
        compare precision.
     
        1998-04-19
     
     
see also:
precision 

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