ACCURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accurate mean? 

• ACCURATE (adjective)
  The adjective ACCURATE has 2 senses:

1. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

  Familiarity information: ACCURATE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCURATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

Context example:

an accurate scale

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

Synonyms:

accurate; exact; precise

Context example:

a precise measurement

Similar:

correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)

 Context examples 

But the detailed information required to make accurate estimates of this potential has remained elusive.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

Of the twenty-seven products analysed, twenty-two were deemed accurate and reliable.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

Using high-resolution satellite data and precision sky brightness measurements, NOAA’s study produced the most accurate assessment yet of the global impact of light pollution.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Wouters H, van Gool WA, Schmand B, Lindeboom R. Revising the ADAS-cog for a more accurate assessment of cognitive impairment.

(Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive CDISC Version Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

This makes possible accurate quantitation in image analysis.

(Attenuation Correction, NCI Thesaurus)

A device that cannot calibrate (establish the relationship between a measuring device and the units of measure) to ensure accurate readings.

(Device Failure to Calibrate Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

This system achieves rapid, accurate, and secure capture of clinical trial data with minimal effort.

(Clinical Data Update System, NCI Thesaurus)

These guidelines enable an extensive system for specimen storage that allows for the accurate establishment of disease incidences over long periods of time.

(Cancer Biobank, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have discovered a way to make current models more accurate.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

In these efforts, they need more sensitive and accurate tests to better select clinical trial participants and assess whether new therapeutic strategies work as hoped.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)