(n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(4) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(5) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
(6) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(7) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(8) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
(9) The sensitivity , accuracy, and reproductibility of this method are described and discussed.
(10) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
(11) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(12) This longitudinal study compares the accuracy of self-assessments of 22 students across four examinations during their first 2 years of medical school.
(13) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(14) We assume that the fragments have been assembled and address the problem of determining the degree to which the reconstructed sequence is free from errors, i.e., its accuracy.
(15) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
(16) This procedure yields excellent precision and accuracy, as demonstrated by the analysis of a known amino acid mixture and of neonatal plasma.
(17) The midsystolic Doppler velocity showed the highest predictive accuracy (94%) for the detection of severe aortic stenosis.
(18) By completing these three steps, we feel that we have improved the overall accuracy of our custom block making system which has resulted in more accurate treatments for our patients.
(19) This data gives the radiotherapist some useful parameters for the selection of applicators and general knowledge of the accuracy of the system.
(20) In contrast, US-guided FNAC had an accuracy of 89% (62 of 70), a sensitivity of 76% (25 of 33), and a specificity of 100% (37 of 37).
Nicety
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
(n.) Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.
(n.) A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Post-match niceties: Dunne and Henry get to their feet, embrace and head for the dressing rooms.
(2) Leaders regularly cock a snook at democratic niceties in staying in power and many seem largely out of touch with their people's needs, behind their high walls and blue-light security cavalcades.
(3) 14 March Exhibition Joanna Hogg reunites with Tom Hiddleston to probe the niceties of middle class life once more.
(4) Pre-match niceties On ITV1, Andy Townsend gets the obligatory "they don't come any bigger than this" out of the way early doors, as 800 Turkish military cadets perform an opening ceremony that's so ripe for mockery it hurts.
(5) There is a simple fact that you appear to be overlooking: the other political conferences would have been targeted too but fell outside our scope because of the long-winded niceties of calling strikes.
(6) To complain that he isn't always polite feels irrelevant: Eisenberg seems to dwell on a different mental sphere, one far away from conventional niceties.
(7) Not long now: The teams are out, the pleasantries have been exchanged and the niceties are over.
(8) The issue is not just one of legal niceties about international humanitarian law played out in private, but moral issues about how civilian lives are protected in war.
(9) Events rather than legal and political niceties may now determine that outcome, with Greek banks believed unable to reopen without a fresh infusion of cash via the ECB.
(10) This constitutional nicety has, however, been buried by larger developments.
(11) He is anxious to observe every legal nicety to avoid giving News Corp or any other interested party grounds to appeal his decision when it is announced later this month.
(12) Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles) Pre-match niceties: The teams emerge from the tunnel with Honduras midfielder Roger Espinoza having what seems like a very long, deep and meaningful chat with the young mascot whose hand he's holding.
(13) She was tempted, she reveals in the book, to ditch the title Hard Choices and rename the memoir The Scrunchie Chronicles , in reference to the stir she caused as secretary of state when she cast aside (female) diplomatic niceties and began to clip her hair back.
(14) Post-match niceties: With weeping Barcelona players strewn around the battlefield like corpses on the set of Braveheart and Inter's players celebrating wildly, Jose Mourinho sprints on to the pitch with one arm raised before giving it the full Messiah in the centre-circle.
(15) He was little concerned about nuances and utterly averse to becoming involved in organisational niceties.
(16) As Dennis Wilder, the top White House Asia adviser to George W Bush, put it : “Tillerson and the new press secretary are just not yet steeped in the arcane nature and legal niceties of the South China Sea issue.” Moreover, blockading the islands is not only “literally an act of war”, but “operationally almost impossible” an American South China Sea expert, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the situation, told me.
(17) But whatever is seething beneath the surface – guilt, jealousy or crime – the niceties of life must continue.
(18) I began my letter with the usual niceties: "I hope you're well and healthy and staying positive …" After that, it took me a while to think of what to say next.
(19) Irrespective of niceties of enzyme and organic acid biochemistry, the clinician must be aware of biotin-reversible regressive brain disease which may present before manifest metabolic acidosis.
(20) Well, yes, that is the law of our country, not however a nicety often afforded to the victims of his titles, and here I refer not only to hacking but the vituperative portrayal of weak and vulnerable members of our society, relentlessly attacked by Murdoch's ink jackals.