accurate

Etymology

 * First attested in the 1610's with the obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".
 * From, perfect past participle of ; from + , from.
 * Compare.

Adjective

 * 1) Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
 * 2) Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
 * 3)  Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
 * 1) Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
 * 2)  Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
 * 1) Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
 * 2)  Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
 * 1)  Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

Usage notes

 * We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment.
 * We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars.
 * We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness.
 * We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَضْبُوط,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: дакладны́
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ზუსტი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀκριβής
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: nákvæm
 * Indonesian:, , , ,
 * Ingrian: tocnoi
 * Interlingua:, precise, exacte,
 * Irish: beacht
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: precīzs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: то́чен, пре́цизен
 * Malay: tepat,
 * Norman: juste
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cinnteach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̏чан, та̏чан, пре̏цӣзан
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: presný
 * Slovene: natančen
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: som stämmer
 * Telugu: ఖచ్చితమైన
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, ,,
 * Ukrainian:, докла́дний
 * Vietnamese:, ,

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) carefully, precisely, exactly