NOUN | attribute | accuracy, truth | the quality of being near to the true value |
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attribute | accuracy | (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number |
Sounds | ae'kyerahsiy | |
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Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... |
Meaning | The quality of being near to the true value. | |
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Example | "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass" | |
Synonym | truth | |
Attributes | accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy |
inaccurate | not exact | |
Narrower | exactness, exactitude | The quality of being exact / exact |
fidelity | accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal | |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
Opposite | inaccuracy | The quality of being inaccurate and having errors |
Spanish | exactitud, precisión, rigor, verdad | |
Catalan | exactitud, precisió, rigor, veritat |
Meaning | (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number. | |
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Example | "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy" | |
Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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