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Accurate

//ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.

    "an accurate calculator"

  2. 2
    Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

    "My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate."

  3. 3
    On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.

    "an accurate pass"

  4. 4
    Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.

    "an accurate marksman"

  5. 5
    Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. obsolete

    "for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have"

Adjective
  1. 1
    conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy wordnet
  2. 2
    (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct wordnet

Etymology

First attested in the 1610's with the now obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact". Borrowed from Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect passive participle of accūrō (“take care of”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Compare English cure.

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