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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AC'CURACY, n. [L. accuratio, from accurare, to take care of; ad and curare, to take care; cura, care. See Care.]
1. Exactness; exact conformity to truth; or to a rule or model; freedom from mistake; nicety; correctness; precision which results from care. The accuracy of ideas or opinions is conformity to truth. The value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy.
2. Closeness; tightness; as a tube sealed with accuracy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of being near to the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account" [syn: accuracy, truth] [ant: inaccuracy]
2: (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy"

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -cies) Date: 1662 1. freedom from mistake or error ; correctness 2. a. conformity to truth or to a standard or model ; exactness b. degree of conformity of a measure to a standard or a true value — compare precision 2a

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. exactness or precision, esp. arising from careful effort.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Accuracy Ac"cu*ra*cy (#; 277), n. [See Accurate.] The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy. --Reid. The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides. --Lardner.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. The accuracy of information or measurements is their quality of being true or correct, even in small details. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of these figures. ? inaccuracy N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n 2. If someone or something performs a task, for example hitting a target, with accuracy, they do it in an exact way without making a mistake. ...weapons that could fire with accuracy at targets 3,000 yards away... ? inaccuracy N-UNCOUNT: oft with N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Accurateness, exactness, exactitude, correctness, precision, niceness, nicety, truth, accurateness, fidelity, faithfulness, carefulness, correctness, closeness, strictness.

Moby Thesaurus

absoluteness, attention to detail, attention to fact, care for truth, circumstantiality, conscientiousness, correctness, criticality, criticalness, definiteness, delicacy, detail, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, faithfulness, faultlessness, fidelity, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, flawlessness, fussiness, literalism, literality, literalness, mathematical precision, meticulousness, minuteness, minuteness of detail, niceness, nicety, particularity, particularness, perfection, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, refinement, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, severity, specificity, strictness, subtlety, textualism, the letter