accurate
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
- 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.
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AdjectiveEdit
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
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.
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TranslationsEdit
exact or careful conformity to truth
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EtymologyEdit
From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”)
AdverbEdit
accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)
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ReferencesEdit
- accurate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- accurate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accurate in Gaffiot, 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
- a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)