Ac'cu-rate, a.
a. [Lat. accuratus, p. p. and adj., from accurare, from ad and curare, to take care, from cura, care.]
Sense 1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to a standard, rule, or model; free from failure, error, or defect; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; an accurate expression.
Sense 2. Precisely fixed; determinate. [Obs.]
Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. Bacon.
Synonyms—Correct; exact; precise; just; nice.—ACCURATE, CORRECT, EXACT, PRECISE. We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard 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 redundancy; 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 to instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.