ACCURATEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈak.jʊ.ɹɪt/, /ˈak.jə.ɹɪt/, /-ət/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/, /ˈæk.jɚ.ɪt/, /-ət/
• (米国発音, nonstandard) IPA: /ˈæk.ɹɪt/, /ˈæk.ə.ɹɪt/, /-ət/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/
• (Indic) IPA: /əkjʊˈreʈ/

形容詞

accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)

1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.

   an accurate calculator

   an accurate measure

   accurate knowledge

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page x:

     For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

   Synonym: unerring

   My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.

3. On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.

   Synonym: precise

   an accurate pass

   an accurate shot

4. Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.

   an accurate marksman

   an accurate shooter

5. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
   • 1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things:

     for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have

使用する際の注意点

• 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 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 instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.

同意語

• correct
• exact
• just
• nice
• particular

反意語

• inaccurate

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• carucate

副詞

accūrātē (comparative accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)

1. carefully, precisely, exactly

関連する語

• accūrātiō
• accūrātus
• accūrō

参照

• “accurate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “accurate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “accurate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)