Accurate vs. Perfect — What's the Difference?

(especially of information, measurements, or predictions) correct in all details; exact

Accurately reproducing an original

(with reference to a weapon, missile, or shot) capable of or successful in reaching the intended target

Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.

Conforming exactly to fact; errorless.

Being without defect or blemish

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits from a standard.

Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.

Capable of providing a correct reading or measurement

Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation

Acting or performing with care and precision; meticulous

Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

Complete; thorough; utter

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

Pure; undiluted; unmixed

(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

Excellent and delightful in all respects

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.

(Botany) Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

Capable of sexual reproduction. Used of fungi.

Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy;

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;

(Music) Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.

(Grammar) The aspect of a verb that expresses action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.

A verb or verb form having this aspect.

To bring to perfection or completion

Fitting its definition precisely.

Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.

Without fault or mistake; thoroughly skilled or talented.

Excellent and delightful in all respects.

(mathematics) Of a number: equal to the sum of its proper divisors.

Representing a completed action.

(biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.

(botany) Of flowers, having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).

(analysis) Of a set: equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A.

(music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.

(of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.

(obsolete) Well informed; certain; sure.

(obsolete) Innocent, guiltless.

(grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

(video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.

A leader of the Cathar movement.

(transitive) To make perfect; to improve or hone.

(legal) To take an action, usually the filing of a document in the correct venue, that secures a legal right.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.

Well informed; certain; sure.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; - said of flower.

The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.

A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

Make perfect or complete;

Being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Precisely accurate or exact;