exactitude
pronunciation
How to pronounce exactitude in British English:
UK [ɪgˈzæktɪtju:d]
How to pronounce exactitude in American English:
US [ɪgˈzæktɪtud]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being exact
Word Origin
- exactitude (n.)
- 1734, from French exactitude (17c.), from exact, from Latin exactus (see exact (adj.)).
Example
- 1. The measurements have been made with great exactitude .
- 2. In a general sense , accuracy means correctness , truth , and exactitude .
- 3. He 's willing to sacrifice historical or cultural exactitude of meaning .
- 4. He recounts the conflict with the exactitude of a well-informed witness and the zeal of a reformer .
- 5. The europe of descartes ; the europe of the age of reason and the enlightenment ; the europe of the industrial and technological revolution of the last two centuries holds within itself all the elements of method and exactitude conveyed by the term " total quality " .