accurate

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First attested in the 1610s.
(exactness): First attested in the 1650s.
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.

accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
an accurate calculator

an accurate measure

accurate knowledge
- 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 derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
- 1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things:
  for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have

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.

exact or careful conformity to truth

accurate

accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)

accurate f pl

From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”)

accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)

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