Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In a scientific context, accuracy and precision are different things, and some of this difference carries over to these words' non-scientific common usage. An accurate scientific measurement is one that is very close to the real value.
Exactness is closer to precision. If you specify something exactly like 1.329673, that is very precise/exact. However, if the true number is actually 1.226111, then it is not very accurate.
Senior Member. Precise refers to the ability to repeat a task and obtain the same result each time. For example, when shooting at a target the marks made by a precise shooter will be closely clustered. They need not be in the center of the target. Accurate refers to the ability to perform a task and obtain a correct result.
Precision means entering into fine detail. Accuracy means not making any errors. E.g: A watch may show that the time is 15:08:47.985 - that is very precise (to a thousandth of a second). However, since the time is really 15:39, the watch is totally inaccurate.
Accuracy refers to the degree of correctness or precision of some action or by extension of that which performs the action. The rockets returned to their landing platform with great accuracy. We can speak of accuracy as an abstraction, as a quality of actions or things that perform actions. But in actual contexts it does not exist apart from ...
Those who are fond of precision in measurement and in language might possibly say that a measurement could be accurate but not exact. The width of my PC screen is 305mm. That is an accurate measurement, within an acceptable tolerance, and if I knew how I could give you a formal assessement of the degree of accuracy of the measurement.
edited Mar 16, 2023 at 12:25. asked Mar 14, 2023 at 20:12. Renato Fernandes. 107 3. 1. method A is more accurate than method B. Use the adjective, not the noun, in English. Spanish and Portuguese and French would use the noun: The accuracy of A is greater than B. You are probably being influenced by one of those. – Lambie.
1. "Arrogancy" is an archaic and rarely used synonym of "arrogance". It will sound or look unnatural to many native speakers. arrogancy. noun. same as arrogance. Used Rarely. Arrogancy. Share.
1 Answer. Sorted by: 2. An occurrence is every instance of the event. A recurrence is every instance after the first event. So the first recurrence of the event is the second occurence. If I understand correctly you want the option to change every event, including the first one. In this case I would say that "Occurrence" is the right way to ...
1. As the glasses are unlikely to have broken themselves, we need the passive voice, are [already] broken, or present perfect passive, have [already] been broken. She needs to realize that the rose-colored glasses have already been broken. Share.