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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Conformity to fact.
  • noun Precision; exactness.
  • noun The ability of a measurement to match the actual value of the quantity being measured.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition or quality of being accurate; extreme precision or exactness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; correctness: as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy; copies of legal instruments should be taken with accuracy.
  • noun Synonyms Accurateness, exactness, exactitude, precision, carefulness, care, niceness, nicety.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
  • noun Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number
  • noun the quality of being near to the true value

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  • "Their powers of conversation were considerable. They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit." - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    August 17, 2015

  • accuracy, n.

    <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/04/is-uk-claim-zero-civilian-casualties-iraq-airstrikes-credible">The Guardian, 4 December 2015</a>:

    There is confusion over the way the military uses terminology. “Precision means you can hit the object you wanted to hit and nothing else. Accuracy means that the object is indeed what you thought it was,” Joshi said.

    “You can have a very precise strike on a suspected truck carrying militants, but it would be inaccurate if it turned out to be carrying civilians. Missiles can be precise, but only intelligence and surveillance can bring accuracy. This distinction is being lost.”

    December 31, 2015

  • As the word Accuracy comes with tons of meaning which are explained here very well.

    February 21, 2018