Accuracy Definition

ăkyər-ə-sē
noun
Conformity to fact.
American Heritage
The quality or state of being accurate or exact; precision; exactness.
Webster's New World
Precision; exactness.
American Heritage
The ability of a measurement to match the actual value of the quantity being measured.
American Heritage

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness.

The value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
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Other Word Forms of Accuracy

Noun

Singular:
accuracy
Plural:
accuracies

Origin of Accuracy

  • accurate +‎ -cy

    From Wiktionary

  • First attested in the 1660s.

    From Wiktionary

Accuracy Sentence Examples

  • Proving their accuracy is up to the authorities.

  • The accuracy of heats of combustion determined in the closed calorimeter is in favourable cases about one-half per cent.

  • The problem is the further I go into the past, the less accuracy I can attain.

  • The angle through which the arm was moved, or, in the latter case, the angle between the two arms, was read off upon a finely graduated arc. With such means no very high accuracy was possible.

  • Assuming the accuracy of the estimate just made, we see that a thousand years ago the sun must have had a diameter 100 m.

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Words Starting With

AACACC

Words Ending With

YCYACY

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accuracy

Words Starting With A and Ending With Y

Starts With A & Ends With YStarts With AC & Ends With YStarts With A & Ends With CY

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With A8 Letter Words Ending With Y