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Etymology

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First attested in the 1610's with the now obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".

Borrowed fromLatinaccūrātus(“done with care”),perfectpassiveparticiple ofaccūrō(“take care of”) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromad-(“to, towards, at”) +cūrō(“take care”), fromcūra(“care”) +-ō(first conjugation verb-forming suffix). CompareEnglishcure.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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accurate (comparativemoreaccurate,superlativemostaccurate)

  1. Telling the truth or giving a true result;exact; not defective or faulty
    anaccurate calculator
    anaccurate 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 deriveaccurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
  2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
    My horoscopes I read last week were surprisinglyaccurate.
  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 moreaccurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have

Usage notes

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  • We speak of a thing ascorrect with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, acorrect account, acorrectlikeness, a man ofcorrectdeportment.
  • We speak of a thing asaccurate with reference to the carebestowed upon its execution, and the increasedcorrectness to beexpectedtherefrom; as, anaccurate statement, anaccuratedetail of particulars.
  • We speak of a thing asexact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and noredundancy; as, anexactcoincidence, theexact truth, anexact likeness.
  • We speak of a thing asprecise when we think of it asstrictlyconformed to some rule or model, as ifcut downthereto; as aprecise conformity instructions;precisely right; he was veryprecise in giving his directions.

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Translations

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exact or careful conformity to truth

References

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  1. ^Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Accuracy”, in “False Pronunciation”, inA Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech‎[1],Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co,→OCLC,page77.

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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accurate

  1. inflection ofaccuraat:
    1. masculine/femininesingularattributive
    2. definiteneutersingularattributive
    3. pluralattributive

Interlingua

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Adjective

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accurate (comparativeplus accurate,superlativeleplus accurate)

  1. accurate

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Italian

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Adjective

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accurate f pl

  1. feminineplural ofaccurato

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Latin

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Etymology

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Fromaccūrātus(“elaborate, exact”).

Adverb

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accūrātē (comparativeaccūrātius,superlativeaccūrātissimē)

  1. carefully,precisely,exactly

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References

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  • “accurate”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “accurate”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “accurate”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
    • 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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