accurate

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1. accurate - Adjective

2. accurate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rudyard Kipling

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. Margaret Mead

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. Arthur Miller

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. Max Beerbohm

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. Thomas Henry Huxley

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