accurate

Etymology

* First attested in the 1610's with the obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact". * From Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of accūrō (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”). * Compare cure.

adj

1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
   an accurate calculator
   an accurate measure
   accurate knowledge
2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
   My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
3. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
   for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have 1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things