accurate
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Etymology
- First attested in the 1610's with the obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".
- 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”).
- Compare cure.
Pronunciation
Adjective
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, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →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 notes
- 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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Translations
exact or careful conformity to truth
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
accurate
- inflection of accuraat:
Adjective
accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)
Related terms
Adjective
accurate f pl
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Etymology
From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”).
Adverb
accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)
Related terms
References
- “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, 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)
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