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ac⋅cu⋅rate

  [ak-yer-it]
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–adjective
1. free from error or defect; consistent with a standard, rule, or model; precise; exact.
2. careful or meticulous: an accurate typist.
Origin:
1605–15; < L accūrātus carefully prepared (ptp. of accūrāre), equiv. to ac- ac- + cūr(a) care + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
ac⋅cu⋅rate⋅ly, adverb
ac⋅cu⋅rate⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. true, unerring. See correct.
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ac·cu·rate   (āk'yər-ĭt)   
adj.  
  1. Conforming exactly to fact; errorless.
  2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits from a standard.
  3. Capable of providing a correct reading or measurement: an accurate scale.
  4. Acting or performing with care and precision; meticulous: an accurate proofreader.

[Latin accūrātus, done with care, past participle of accūrāre, to do with care : ad-, ad- + cūrāre, to care for (from cūra, care; see cure).]
ac'cu·rate·ly adv., ac'cu·rate·ness n.
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Accurate

Ac"cu*rate\, a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr. accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure.]

1. 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.

2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]

Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. --Bacon.

Syn: Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.

Usage: Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. 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 redundance; 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.
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Language Translation for : accurate
Spanish: exacto, preciso,
German: genau,
Japanese: 正確な
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accurate 
1612, from L. accuratus "prepared with care, exact," pp. of accurare "take care of," from ad- "to" + curare "take care of" (see cure). The notion of doing something carefully led to that of being exact (1651).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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