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accuracy

nouncandidate·updated May 13, 2026

The quality or state of being correct, precise, or near to the true value.

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FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
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The quality or state of being correct, precise, or near to the true value.
General Data Protection RegulationEU1 senseview framework →
§1 · EU
Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date
mandatory
Glossary of Computer System Software Development Terminology2 sensesview framework →
§1
A qualitative assessment of correctness or freedom from error.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
The measure of an instrument's capability to approach a true or absolute value. It is a function of precision and bias.
ISO/IEC TS 5723:2022(en) Trustworthiness — Vocabulary1 senseview framework →
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measure of closeness of results of observations, computations, or estimates to the true values or the values accepted as being true
Glossary of Statistical Terms1 senseview framework →
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Closeness of computations or estimates to the exact or true values that the statistics were intended to measure.
Glossary of Computer System Software Development Terminology1 senseview framework →
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The accuracy of a machine learning system is measured as the percentage of correct predictions or classifications made by the model over a specific data set. It is typically estimated using a test or "hold out" sample, other than the one(s) used to construct the model. Its complement, the error rate, is the proportion of incorrect predictions on the same data.
Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
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the quality of being near to the true value
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(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number