accuracy

1. 1.

   the quality of being near to the true value

   “he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass”

   “the lawyer questioned the truth of my account”

   Synonymstruth

   Antonymsinaccuracy

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerexactnessfidelity
2. 2.

   (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number

   “the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy”

   Broaderquality

   mathematics

Other forms of accuracy

plural

accuracies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accuracy

What does accuracy mean?

accuracy means "the quality of being near to the true value". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accuracy?

accuracy has 4 syllables: ac-cu-ra-cy. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ˈækjɚəsi/.

What is another word for accuracy?

Close synonyms include truth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of accuracy?

The recorded antonyms are inaccuracy.

Is accuracy a common word?

accuracy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.