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accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)

  1. 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.
  2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
    My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
  3. (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

exact or careful conformity to truth

accurate

  1. inflection of accuraat:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)

  1. accurate

accurate f pl

  1. feminine plural of accurato

From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”).

accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)

  1. carefully, precisely, exactly