accurate

EtymologyEdit

• First attested in the 1610's.
• (exactness): First attested in the 1650's.
• From Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of accūrō (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”).
• See cure.

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.jɚ.ɪt/

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AdjectiveEdit

accurate (comparative accurater or more accurate, superlative accuratest or most accurate)

1. In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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 derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
3. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
   • Bacon

     Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.

Usage notesEdit

• 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 redundancy; 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.

SynonymsEdit

• correct
• exact
• just
• nice
• particular

AntonymsEdit

• inaccurate

Derived termsEdit

• accuracy
• accurately

TranslationsEdit

AnagramsEdit

• carucate

PronunciationEdit

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AdjectiveEdit

accurate

1. Inflected form of accuraat

AdjectiveEdit

accurate f pl

1. feminine plural of accurato

AnagramsEdit

• cacature

EtymologyEdit

From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”)

AdverbEdit

accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)

1. carefully, precisely, exactly

Related termsEdit

• accūrātiō
• accūrātus
• accūrō

ReferencesEdit

• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)