precise vs accurate
Definitions
adjective
- (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
- sharply exact or accurate or delimited
Examples
What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton.
As precise definitions of words do not translate well from one language to another, words connoting latria and dulia vary from one language to another.
Definitions
adjective
- conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
- (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
Examples
8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily.
It's not entirely accurate - the book is a bit darker than that, but there is a fair bit of lovable eccentricity to the characters.
A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment.
