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/ˈækjɝət/
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[ UK /ˈækjʊɹət/ ]
[ UK /ˈækjʊɹət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
the accounting was accurate
an accurate reproduction
accurate measurements
an accurate scale -
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
a precise measurement
a precise image
How To Use accurate In A Sentence
- A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment.
- 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.
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- These devices allow one to get detailed and accurate information about a pigeon's homeward track without the necessity of following it.
- Otherwise, the sketch is exactly accurate, and is here presented as the unprejudiced description and estimate of a foreign gentleman, who had no inducement, such as might be attributed to a Southern writer, to overcolor his portrait. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
- There is no accurate method of calculating the city's true population, and tourists also contribute directly to the excess garbage problems, he said.
- In military, both guidance and Anti-TBM ask the equipment fast and flexible to locate and track accurately the random or moving goal in order to finish a serial action suck as aiming and track attack.
- During a radio interview, Mr Waters said the newspaper spiked his column on the grounds the article was libellous and inaccurate.
- General Rashood's original estimate of the Russian position had been accurate to a degree. BARRACUDA 945
- Physicians and hospitals fear the practice could unfairly penalize practitioners and say there's no way to benchmark quality accurately.