(a.) In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
(a.) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(4) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(5) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(6) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(7) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(8) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(9) The proposed method appears to offer a more consistently accurate means of measuring EDV than previously suggested ultrasound methods.
(10) Our experience shows that the most accurate indications are provided by acoustic stapedius reflex, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and vestibular investigation.
(11) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(12) The index estimated the probability of infection more accurately (p less than 0.01) than did clinicians, performed well in each site, and remained accurate when C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were considered separately.
(13) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(14) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
(15) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(16) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(17) REA is stable, sensitive, accurate and reproducible.
(18) These tests are considered to be less accurate than blood test.
(19) In-situ hybridisation for CMV-DNA provides an accurate and rapid diagnosis of CMV infection, and allows specific antiviral therapy to be used earlier.
(20) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
Incontrovertible
Definition:
(a.) Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven incontrovertible arguments show that the only valid measurement unit for elastic stockings is the millimetre of mercury and not a grading system.
(2) Our aim is to provide incontrovertible proof of this hypothesis, reporting the results of systematic stool examinations for Campylobacter in the stools as well as 5 new cases of septicaemia.
(3) The case that Bagosora personally ordered the murder of Rwanda's prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers, and then unleashed the genocide against the Tutsi minority was, the prosecutors claim, as important for the fact that it established an incontrovertible body of evidence for the planning and organisation of a genocide as it was for establishing its agent.
(4) When I ask both brothers about the incontrovertible blemishes on the last government's record, the policy of locking up children at Yarl's Wood, say, or the cavernous gap between executive reward and the minimum wage, they offer vague mea culpas.
(5) As pluralistic as our society may be, and no matter how relevant cultural and subcultural values may be, it is an incontrovertible fact that, by exceedingly early childbearing, poor teenagers who are black immeasurably increase their inherent disadvantages to pursue education and acquire marketable skills, not to mention attractive jobs.
(6) Laurent Fabius said he believed there was now incontrovertible proof that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the 21 August gas attack, while Sergei Lavrov said it was still unclear who carried it out.
(7) If they can, the argument goes, then the urgency of addressing the problem becomes incontrovertible; if it doesn't, then it allows countries to continue delaying action or reducing their commitments.
(8) None of these proposed mechanisms incontrovertibly excludes the other and complex interrelationships may exist.
(9) Despite incontrovertable evidence demonstrating the unique immunosuppressive capabilities of antihymocyte globulin (ATG) in animals, its value in clinical transplantation has remained inconclusive.
(10) "I have tested this, trying with and without the card in my wallet and the evidence is incontrovertible.
(11) Given this situation the right of the patient to a full explanation of the diagnosis and the rationale of the treatment offered seems to be incontrovertible.
(12) Hickman parries this by pointing to such non-rock Record Store Day releases as a 7-inch single by One Direction and three albums of classical music conducted by Herbert von Karajan, but it seems to me that the point is almost incontrovertible: to use the vocabulary of the 1980s, much of the energy that goes into the event is unmistakably rockist, and the festivities often feel like a day-long benefit for an entire musical idiom: Live Aid meets the Antiques Roadshow, with the aim of keeping the guitars ringing out for another year.
(13) The presence of a seatbelt sign across the abdomen is not incontrovertible evidence that a laparotomy must be done, but its presence should create a high index of suspicion for serious visceral injury.
(14) More than this, he has one incontrovertible advantage over anyone who might think about usurping him: he is a Kim.
(15) And there was, after all, the incontrovertible fact of the video.
(16) However, the negativity of this test cannot be considered as an incontrovertible proof of the absence of coronary sensitivity to vasoconstriction.
(17) Nevertheless, incontrovertible proof of causality should not be required before regulations are made to protect public health.
(18) The use of varicocelectomy for the treatment of subfertility seems to be incontrovertible.
(19) 1.41pm GMT 11 min: ‘England are playing some tidy football,’ exclaims the BBC’s John Motson, shocked by a display of incontrovertible Anglo-competence.
(20) When one man is said to have called another a “pleb”, but no incontrovertible evidence exists that he has done so, how do you get to the truth?