Completeness vs. Accuracy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Completeness and Accuracy
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Completeness
Having all necessary or normal parts, components, or steps; entire
A complete medical history.
A complete set of dishes.
Accuracy
The quality or state of being correct or precise
We have confidence in the accuracy of the statistics
Completeness
(Botany) Having all principal parts, namely, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistil or pistils. Used of a flower.
Accuracy
Conformity to fact.
Completeness
Having come to an end; concluded
The renovation of the kitchen is complete.
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Accuracy
Precision; exactness.
Completeness
Absolute; thorough
Complete control.
A complete mystery.
Accuracy
The ability of a measurement to match the actual value of the quantity being measured.
Completeness
Accomplished; consummate
A complete musician.
Accuracy
The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness
Completeness
(Football) Caught in bounds by a receiver
A complete pass.
Accuracy
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
The jury doubted the accuracy of the witness' comments.
Completeness
To bring to a finish or an end
She has completed her studies.
Accuracy
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.
The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
The accuracy with which the piston fits the sides.
Completeness
To make whole, with all necessary elements or parts
A second child would complete their family. Fill in the blanks to complete the form.
Accuracy
The quality of nearness to the truth or the true value;
He was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass
The lawyer questioned the truth of my account
Completeness
(Football) To throw (a forward pass) that is caught in bounds by a receiver.
Accuracy
(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number;
The atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much greater accuracy
Completeness
The state or condition of being complete.
Completeness
(logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever is true, then must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
Completeness
The state of being complete.
Completeness
The state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
Completeness
(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system
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