ACCURACY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accuracy mean? 

• ACCURACY (noun)
  The noun ACCURACY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being near to the true value

2. (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number

  Familiarity information: ACCURACY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCURACY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being near to the true value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accuracy; truth

Context example:

the lawyer questioned the truth of my account

Hypernyms ("accuracy" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

accurate (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)

inaccurate (not accurate)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accuracy"):

exactitude; exactness (the quality of being exact)

fidelity (accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal)

Antonym:

inaccuracy (the quality of being inaccurate and having errors)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy

Hypernyms ("accuracy" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

 Context examples 

To improve the test’s accuracy, the researchers incorporated a number of major risk factors for Alzheimer’s, including age and the presence of a genetic variant called APOE4.

(New Alzheimer’s Blood Test Could Detect Signs of Symptoms Decades Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The test could distinguish with 90% accuracy between cognitively normal participants who remained healthy and those who became impaired within 2 to 3 years.

(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)

Among the improvements on the map are updates to the accuracy of feature locations, sharpening of feature details by removing some of the blurring effects of the camera, and improved color processing.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument.

(Calibration, NCI Thesaurus)

Dating methods that determine time without ambiguity to a known level of accuracy.

(Absolute dating, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

While scientists have long known that these cycles last approximately 11 years, predicting when one cycle ends and the next begins has been challenging to pin down with any accuracy.

('Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles, National Science Foundation)

“We’ve done testing on human tissues that have been taken out of patients and those have shown 96 percent accuracy detecting cancer from non-cancer,” Zahedivash said.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Accuracy in this process is essential, since mistakes can result in proteins that don't work or, worse, interfere with cell function.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

Both electron depletion and electron increases in this layer can possibly cause radio communications to fail, reduce the accuracy of GPS systems, damage satellites and harm electrical grids.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)