Exactness
[ɪg'zæktnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being exact; 'he demanded exactness in all details'; 'a man of great exactitude'.
Typist: Norton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.
(n.) Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.
Edited by Hattie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Accuracy, correctness, faultlessness, precision, nicety, truth.[2]. Strictness, regularity, scrupulousness, carefulness.
Typed by Hester
Examples
- First, the quantity and value of the land which any man possesses, can never be a secret, and can always be ascertained with great exactness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But he paid his court to them with great exactness, and clearly derived pleasure from the pursuit. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr Wegg replied, with literal exactness, that he felt as if he had had a turn. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The work cannot claim the authority of a text-book, the fullness of a history, nor the exactness of a technical treatise. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They have observed ninety-three different comets, and settled their periods with great exactness. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Of part of the rough land he had made garden-ground, which he cultivated with singular, even with Flemish, exactness and care. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In her habits, she was a living impersonation of order, method, and exactness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But the whole amount of the capital stock which he possesses is almost always a secret, and can scarce ever be ascertained with tolerable exactness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The finest seeds, such as grass and clover, onion and turnip seed, and delicate seed like rice, are handled and sown by machines without crushing or bruising, and with the utmost exactness. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When geometry decides anything concerning the proportions of quantity, we ought not to look for the utmost precision and exactness. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I speak generally, and not with any pretension to exactness. Plato. The Republic.
- But the current prices of labour, at distant times and places, can scarce ever be known with any degree of exactness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typed by Ethan