accurate

• WordNet 3.6
  • adj accurate conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy "an accurate reproduction","the accounting was accurate","accurate measurements","an accurate scale"
  • adj accurate (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct "a precise image","a precise measurement"
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• Interesting fact: Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril
• • Accurate In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
  • Accurate Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. "Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below."
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• Interesting fact: The difference between AM and FM radio is that FM is line-of-sight, while AM bounces off the atmosphere (more accurately, the ionosphere.) AM stations have to reduce the power of their transmissions at night because the ionosphere lifts with the colder temperatures and lees solar interference.
• • accurate Characterized by extreme care; hence, in exact conformity to truth, or to a standard or rule, or to a model; free from error or defect; exact: as, an accurate account; accurate measure; an accurate expression; an accurate calculator or observer.
  • accurate Determinate; precisely fixed.
  • accurate Synonyms Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise, Nice, careful, particular, true, faithful, strict, painstaking, unerring. Of these words correct is the feeblest; it is barely more than not faulty, as tested by some standard or rule. Accurate implies careful and successful endeavor to be correct: as, an accurate accountant, and, by extension of the meaning, accurate accounts; an accurate likeness. Exact is stronger, carrying the accuracy down to minute details: as, an exact likeness. It is more commonly used of things, while precise is used of persons: as, the exact truth; he is very precise in his ways. Precise may represent an excess of nicety, but exact and accurate rarely do so: as, she is prim and precise. As applied more specifically to the processes and results of thought and investigation, exact means absolutely true; accurate, up to a limited standard of truth; precise, as closely true as the utmost care will secure. Thus, the exact ratio of the circumference to the diameter cannot be stated, but the value 3.14159265 is accurate to eight places of decimals, which is sufficiently precise for the most refined measurements. Nice emphasizes the attention paid to minute and delicate points, often in a disparaging sense: as, he is more nice than wise.
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• Interesting fact: Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
• • adj Accurate ak′kūr-āt done with care: exact
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• Anthony Robbins

  

  “We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”
• Oscar Wilde

  

  “No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
• Randall Jacobs

  

  “There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”
• Rudyard Kipling

  

  “A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.”
• William M. Kelly

  

  “Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.”
• George Bernard Shaw

  

  “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

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