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accurate

/ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/

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What does accurate mean?

adjective

  1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
  2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
  3. On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.
More meanings (2)

adjective

  1. Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.
  2. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈæk.ɹɪt//ˈæk.ə.ɹɪt/
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But the author of the Plays and Poems must have had a very large and a very accurate knowledge of the law.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
In spite of his backwardness Robert had a fund of remarkably accurate scientific and other information which a mature person might envy.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
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Her extraordinarily acute and accurate intelligence is thus conveniently put upon the table, and the amour propre of man is kept inviolate.
H. L. (Henry Louis) MenckenIn Defense of WomenProject Gutenberg ebook #1270
It seems impossible to him, and he either does not believe the probably accurate witness, or colors his testimony with that knowledge.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
By means of this alternate motion, interspersed with numerous contacts, a segment of the sheet is obtained, of a very accurate texture.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887