noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unerring accuracy
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He passes the ball with unerring accuracy .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
factual
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The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual accuracy of the advertisement.
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The thing I liked best about Teravainen was that he was consumed with factual accuracy .
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Checking the factual accuracy of the new social security information items proved to be a greater obstacle than usual.
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I will seek confirmation from both parties as to the factual accuracy of any such memorandum.
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The more deep-seated problem is not factual accuracy but the writer's perspective on his subject.
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The report has been with the department's accountants for more than three weeks as they check its factual accuracy .
great
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They puke with great accuracy and surprising range.
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We were able to track it with great accuracy .
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For greater accuracy of assembly, major body panels such as the doors are now formed in one piece.
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It had been quite effective for making predictions, but became more and more over-complicated as greater accuracy was needed.
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Trajectory calculations could therefore have been done with greater speed and accuracy .
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A push on my chest, which, because of its limited area, required great accuracy .
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Some one who hits the ball with great accuracy on the volley and with some power too.
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And Anatole will attack -- with great strength and accuracy and persistence, until his opponent is left eviscerated on the sidewalk.
high
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Such arrangements can give high accuracy in low-speed laminar flows.
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If this were the case we could avoid having to examine each device to arbitrarily high accuracy .
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It's sending back measurements of global sea surface temperatures, with very high accuracy .
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Detailed analysis of the monitor has enabled its colour response to be predicted to a very high degree of accuracy .
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You will need to be able to work for long periods with a high degree of accuracy , and have really good eyesight.
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However, they require the cuts to be made to high standards of accuracy so that the transition is made smoothly.
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Computer-aided techniques will help by providing higher accuracy results, but will not bypass the need for previous detailed petrographic study.
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A better description of its use is that it automatically loose feeds the swim with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency.
historical
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At the same time concern for historical accuracy , as well as psychological honesty, is a characteristic of the modern writer.
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The only measurement of any historical accuracy we have relates to one component: carbon dioxide.
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In these circumstances, historical accuracy became a strictly secondary consideration.
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This at least has the virtue of historical accuracy .
reasonable
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There are various ways in which popular opinion can be represented with reasonable accuracy .
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While some estimated their errors within reasonable accuracy others did not, and one laboratory produced systematic errors of 200 years.
uncanny
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It was starting to be unnerving, this ability of his to judge her with such uncanny accuracy !
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Again and again he was saved only by the uncanny accuracy of his shooting.
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He had predicted with uncanny accuracy the result of a snooker championship.
unerring
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The cognac was not quite up to Skipton's fine Napoleonic standards, but it hit the spot with unerring accuracy .
■ NOUN
pinpoint
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But both are acceptably direct, although the Corrado's steering has pinpoint accuracy .
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The device uses radiation to destroy tumors and vascular malformations with pinpoint accuracy .
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achieve
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The best caesium clocks achieve a fractional accuracy and stability of between 10 -13; and 10 -14;.
affect
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But several factors affect the accuracy of radiocarbon dating.
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Dirt and scale deposited on the venturi throat can affect accuracy .
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The main factors affecting the accuracy are: 1.
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To achieve efficiency, pruning of low-scoring readings may take place at certain points without greatly affecting the accuracy of the system.
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Also rounding errors can affect cases where extreme accuracy is required.
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The poor-quality steel can affect accuracy and occasionally causes a barrel to explode.
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Minor changes in sentence structure can affect the accuracy of recall.
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Factors such as oblique and transverse cuts and cell overlap would affect the accuracy of this estimation.
check
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It is not possible to check the accuracy of the figures.
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The observation of actual behavior going on around the consultant provides useful notes for checking on the accuracy of interview data.
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The auditors check the accuracy of accounts and seek to recover money lost through fraud.
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Copies were available for student representatives who could check its accuracy .
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The methods of taking plaster casts can, after all, be checked for their accuracy , using modern animals.
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We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results, let alone of predictions.
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Students fill in diaries on a rota basis, with regular cross referencing to check on the accuracy of the entries.
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The report has been with the department's accountants for more than three weeks as they check its factual accuracy .
ensure
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Full client participation is essential to ensure accuracy when compiling the information model.
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Airline officials argued that time was needed to verify names to ensure accuracy .
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Maintain professional confidentiality. Ensure accuracy and legibility of clinical and legal documents.
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To ensure accuracy , gastrin measurements were performed in the same assay batch.
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Great care is taken to ensure the accuracy of each item.
improve
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But of course the cost of improving the accuracy of credit reference files in this way would have to be met somehow.
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The Census Bureau should use statistical sampling techniques to improve accuracy and minimize the risk of undercount.
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It confirmed this period, but did not improve on its accuracy .
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Use of such corpora will improve the accuracy of the probabilistic models, allowing transitions beyond the trigram level to be investigated.
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The introduction of MIRVing further improved the lethality and accuracy of the weapons.
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The use of this kind of information by handwriting recognisers can improve their accuracy .
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They then pointed at the targets for ten minutes in order to improve their accuracy .
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The complete automation of sample preparation also increases sample throughput and improves accuracy and precision, especially when working with microlitre volumes.
increase
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There would be an advantage, however, in using a stiffer-shafted club because the resulting higher torsional stiffness increases accuracy .
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The Commerce Department had determined earlier that increased numerical accuracy would not affect the distribution of representatives.
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Accuracy Use an impact pad to increase accuracy on moving targets.
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The output from a character recogniser requires further processing to reduce the ambiguity and hence increase the accuracy of recognition.
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Additional information can often be used to increase correction accuracy and speed, for example by studying the sources of errors.
predict
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Linear discriminant analysis showed that polyp recurrence could be predicted with 71% accuracy when the compartment 4+5 labelling index exceeded 3.5.
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At the moment we are unable to predict with accuracy who will or will not abuse.
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How can future cash flows be predicted with sufficient accuracy for a qualification?
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He had predicted with uncanny accuracy the result of a snooker championship.
question
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They usually start by questioning the accuracy of the observations.
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Often elected officials prefer to ignore bad news, so they question the accuracy of the numbers.
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Yet their accounts are in agreement on so many fundamental points that there is little reason to question their basic accuracy .
reduce
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There are two circumstances that may potentially reduce the diagnostic accuracy of this technique.
require
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Most commercial market research is concerned simply with measuring consumption patterns, and that requires far less accuracy than political research.
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A push on my chest, which, because of its limited area, required great accuracy .
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The measurements require an accuracy in timing which is good to ten millionths of a second.
test
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Final retail sales data for August, published today, will test the accuracy of the provisional 0.4 percent growth rate.
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Not only do we test for accuracy in training, but we may wish to test for noise and many other parameters.
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Using data for a selection of metropolitan regions, the models will be tested for feasibility, accuracy and sensitivity.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a stickler for detail/rules/accuracy etc
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With his personal guests who were important to him or his state, Kim was a stickler for detail.
with clockwork precision/accuracy
with pinpoint accuracy
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The device uses radiation to destroy tumors and vascular malformations with pinpoint accuracy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There have been questions about the accuracy of the report.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Additional information can often be used to increase correction accuracy and speed, for example by studying the sources of errors.
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But several factors affect the accuracy of radiocarbon dating.
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Not only do we test for accuracy in training, but we may wish to test for noise and many other parameters.
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The same Newtonian scheme applies here on earth-and out among the stars and galaxies-to some comparable accuracy .
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Use of such corpora will improve the accuracy of the probabilistic models, allowing transitions beyond the trigram level to be investigated.
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West, who lives in Ellenwood, Ga., says the site has amazing accuracy and is fast.