ACCURATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accurately mean? 

• ACCURATELY (adverb)
  The adverb ACCURATELY has 2 senses:

1. with few mistakes

2. strictly correctly

  Familiarity information: ACCURATELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCURATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With few mistakes

Context example:

he works very accurately

Antonym:

inaccurately (in an inaccurate manner)

Pertainym:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Strictly correctly

Context example:

repeated the order accurately

Pertainym:

accurate ((of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct)

 Context examples 

Monitoring Io's surface annually will reveal the style of volcanic eruptions there, constrain the magma composition, and accurately map the spatial distribution of the heat flow and potential variations over time.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

The team will make further observations at closer ranges to more accurately assess where a sample can be taken on Bennu to later be returned to Earth.

(NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Discovers Water on Asteroid, NASA)

To overcome this obstacle, the team used a focused ion beam sectioning system that allowed them to accurately cut the samples out of the eggshells and study them using electron microscopy.

(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)

It initially looked like a typical fast-moving small asteroid, but additional observations over the next couple of days allowed its orbit to be computed fairly accurately.

(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)

A research team has developed a computer algorithm that can analyze digital images of a woman’s cervix and accurately identify precancerous changes that require medical attention.

(AI approach outperformed human experts in identifying cervical precancer, National Institutes of Health)

When the students woke up each morning, they were tested for how quickly and accurately they completed two cognitive tests that measured memory and reaction.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Elinor smiled again, to hear her sister describing so accurately their future expenses at Combe Magna.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

However, those adverse effects are experienced differently from person to person, and little is known about how to accurately predict and detect these individual sleep-deprivation deficits.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scaling laws, like that discovered by the scientists, are known to accurately predict species numbers for plant and animal communities.

(Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species, NSF)

Observing at high altitudes above much of the Earth's atmospheric water allowed SOFIA to accurately measure the ratio of regular to heavy water in Comet Wirtanen.

(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)