accuracyn.

Brit.

/ˈakjᵿrəsi/, U.S.

/ˈækjərəsi/

Forms: 1600s acuracy, 1600s– accuracy.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin accuratia ; accurate adj., -acy suffix.

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin accuratia care, attention (a1535) < classical Latin accūrātus accurate adj. + -ia -y suffix³, or < accurate adj.: see -acy suffix. Compare earlier accurateness n.

1. The state or quality of being accurate; the extent to which something is accurate; precision, exactness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > careful exactness

nicetya1393

featness1577

accurateness1611

accuracy1644

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [noun]

nicetya1393

curiosityc1400

suretya1500

justness1533

preciseness1569

accurateness1611

punctuality1620

punctualness1620

mathematicality1641

accuracy1644

expressness1645

exactness1646

veracity1666

niceness1678

correctness1684

criticalness1693

precision1698

punctuosity1733

definitude1836

minutia1849

definition1866

1644 J. Lightfoot Harmony Foure Evangelists: 1st Pt. vii. 103 So great and various is the accuracy and exactnesse of the Scripture text in the mysticall and profound significances of letters, vowels and accents.

1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 12 Experiments that require a greater acuracy [It. squisitezza maggiore].

1706 E. Wells Answer to Dowley 48 Those called by you Roman Missionaries might with more accuracy have been called Romish Missionaries.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 186 But why then, said I, such Accuracy about Externals?

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 114 The garden..seemed to be kept with great accuracy .

1872 C. Innes Lect. Sc. Legal Antiq. ii. 50 I cannot pretend to distinguish with any accuracy the bondman from the neyf.

1901 Electr. Rev. 15 Mar. 440/1 Prof. Slaby claims to have greatly increased the accuracy and strength of the received signals.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. Sup. 8/3 There are very few mass production industries that work to such a degree of accuracy and precision as record-making demands.

2007 M. Stadler Psychol. Baseball (2008) iii. 82 Throwing a baseball with the force and the accuracy that the game requires..is much more difficult than throwing darts.

2. The closeness of a measurement, calculation, or specification to the correct value. Contrasted with precision (the degree of refinement of the measurement, etc.)

ΚΠ

1876 H. R. Kempe Handbk. Electr. Testing vii. 64 We can thus determine the value of a resistance to an accuracy of ¹/ ₁₀₀th of a unit.

1925 Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 22 709 What we have spoken of as the intrinsic accuracy of an error curve may equally be conceived as the amount of information in a single observation belonging to such a distribution.

1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. 88 It is customary in statistics to measure the accuracy of a calculated mean by computing its ‘standard deviation’.

1987 K. A. Rubinson Chem. Anal. iv. 138 The mean value of the second set of data is far from the ‘true value’; the mean value has a low accuracy, but the results have high precision.

2007 Nature 27 Sept. 411/3 The liquid-drop model predicts the values to an average accuracy of about 3 MeV.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	accuracy
释义	accuracyn. Brit. /ˈakjᵿrəsi/, U.S. /ˈækjərəsi/ Forms: 1600s acuracy, 1600s– accuracy. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin accuratia ; accurate adj., -acy suffix. Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin accuratia care, attention (a1535) < classical Latin accūrātus accurate adj. + -ia -y suffix³, or < accurate adj.: see -acy suffix. Compare earlier accurateness n. 1. The state or quality of being accurate; the extent to which something is accurate; precision, exactness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > careful exactness nicetya1393 featness1577 accurateness1611 accuracy1644 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [noun] nicetya1393 curiosityc1400 suretya1500 justness1533 preciseness1569 accurateness1611 punctuality1620 punctualness1620 mathematicality1641 accuracy1644 expressness1645 exactness1646 veracity1666 niceness1678 correctness1684 criticalness1693 precision1698 punctuosity1733 definitude1836 minutia1849 definition1866 1644 J. Lightfoot Harmony Foure Evangelists: 1st Pt. vii. 103 So great and various is the accuracy and exactnesse of the Scripture text in the mysticall and profound significances of letters, vowels and accents. 1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 12 Experiments that require a greater acuracy [It. squisitezza maggiore]. 1706 E. Wells Answer to Dowley 48 Those called by you Roman Missionaries might with more accuracy have been called Romish Missionaries. 1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 186 But why then, said I, such Accuracy about Externals? 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 114 The garden..seemed to be kept with great accuracy . View more context for this quotation 1872 C. Innes Lect. Sc. Legal Antiq. ii. 50 I cannot pretend to distinguish with any accuracy the bondman from the neyf. 1901 Electr. Rev. 15 Mar. 440/1 Prof. Slaby claims to have greatly increased the accuracy and strength of the received signals. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 5 Jan. Sup. 8/3 There are very few mass production industries that work to such a degree of accuracy and precision as record-making demands. 2007 M. Stadler Psychol. Baseball (2008) iii. 82 Throwing a baseball with the force and the accuracy that the game requires..is much more difficult than throwing darts. 2. The closeness of a measurement, calculation, or specification to the correct value. Contrasted with precision (the degree of refinement of the measurement, etc.) ΚΠ 1876 H. R. Kempe Handbk. Electr. Testing vii. 64 We can thus determine the value of a resistance to an accuracy of ¹/ ₁₀₀th of a unit. 1925 Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 22 709 What we have spoken of as the intrinsic accuracy of an error curve may equally be conceived as the amount of information in a single observation belonging to such a distribution. 1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. 88 It is customary in statistics to measure the accuracy of a calculated mean by computing its ‘standard deviation’. 1987 K. A. Rubinson Chem. Anal. iv. 138 The mean value of the second set of data is far from the ‘true value’; the mean value has a low accuracy, but the results have high precision. 2007 Nature 27 Sept. 411/3 The liquid-drop model predicts the values to an average accuracy of about 3 MeV. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1644
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