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Latin accuratus, past participle and adjective, from accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure

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.
(Obsolete): Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Quotations
- Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. - Bacon

Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.
Of 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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