accurate

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English

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Etymology

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  • First attested in the 1610's with the obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".
  • FromLatinaccūrātus(“done with care”),perfect past participle ofaccūrō(“take care of”);fromad-(“to, towards, at”)+cūrō(“take care”),fromcūra(“care”).
  • Comparecure.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK)IPA(key):/ˈæk.jʊ.ɹət/,/ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/,/ˈæk.ə.ɹət/
  • (US)IPA(key):/ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/,/ˈæk.jɚ.ɪt/,/ˈæk.jɚ.ət/
    • Audio(US):(file)

Adjective

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accurate(comparativemoreaccurate,superlativemostaccurate)

  1. Telling the truth or giving a true result;exact;not defective or faulty
    anaccuratecalculator
    anaccuratemeasure
    accurateknowledge
    • 1992,Rudolf M[athias]Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian,volume V, New York, N.Y.:Columbia University Press,→ISBN,page x:
      For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to deriveaccuratemeasurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
  2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
    My horoscopes I read last week were surprisinglyaccurate.
  3. (obsolete)Preciselyfixed;executedwith care; careful.
    • 1625,Bacon,Of the Vicissitude of Things:
      for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have moreaccurateinfluences upon these things below, than indeed they have

Usage notes

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  • We speak of a thing ascorrectwith reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, acorrectaccount, acorrectlikeness,a man ofcorrectdeportment.
  • We speak of a thing asaccuratewith reference to the carebestowedupon its execution, and the increasedcorrectnessto beexpectedtherefrom;as, anaccuratestatement, anaccuratedetailof particulars.
  • We speak of a thing asexactwith reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and noredundancy;as, anexactcoincidence,theexacttruth, anexactlikeness.
  • We speak of a thing asprecisewhen we think of it asstrictlyconformedto some rule or model, as ifcut downthereto;as apreciseconformity instructions;preciselyright; he was veryprecisein giving his directions.

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Adjective

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accurate

  1. inflection ofaccuraat:
    1. masculine/femininesingularattributive
    2. definiteneutersingularattributive
    3. pluralattributive

Interlingua

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Adjective

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accurate(comparativeplusaccurate,superlativeleplusaccurate)

  1. accurate
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Italian

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Adjective

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accuratefpl

  1. femininepluralofaccurato

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Latin

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Etymology

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Fromaccūrātus(“elaborate, exact”).

Adverb

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accūrātē(comparativeaccūrātius,superlativeaccūrātissimē)

  1. carefully,precisely,exactly
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References

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  • “accurate”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “accurate”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
  • accurateinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎[1],London:Macmillan and Co.
    • a carefully written book:liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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