2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accurate \Ac"cu*rate\, a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr.
accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura
care. See {Cure}.]
1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some
standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free
from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate
calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression,
knowledge, etc.
2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more
accurate influences upon these things below.
--Bacon.
Syn: Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.
Usage: {Accurate}, {Correct}, {Exact}, {Precise}. We speak of
a thing as correct with reference to some rule or
standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a
correct likeness, a man of correct deportment. We
speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the
care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased
correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate
statement, an accurate detail of particulars. We speak
of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected
state of a thing in which there is no defect and no
redundance; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth,
an exact likeness. We speak of a thing as precise when
we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or
model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity
instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in
giving his directions.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
accurate
adj 1: conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a
standard or performing with total accuracy; "an
accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate";
"accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" [ant: {inaccurate}]
2: (of ideas, images, representations, expressions)
characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ;
strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise
measurement" [syn: {exact}, {precise}]