accuracy

CEFRB2

/ˈak.jʊ.ɹə.si/

noun

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noun
The quality of being correct and exact.
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noun
Extra detail
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Today, we can tell how the weather will be with a high degree of accuracy.
The jury doubted the accuracy of the witness' comments.
Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.

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Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
1827, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind
The efficiency of the instrument will also depend upon the accuracy with which the piston fits the bottom and sides of the barrel. When the piston is depressed to the bottom, it is considered in theory to be in absolute contact, so as to exclude every particle of air from the space between it and the bottom.
1856, Dionysius Lardner, Popular Lectures on Science and Art
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

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* First attested in the 1660s. * accurate + -cy