| 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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