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accuracy | applauseometer |

As nouns the difference between accuracy and applauseometer

is that accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness while applauseometer is (informal|us) a device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause.

accuracy

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(accuracies)
  • The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.

    • Synonyms

    * correctness * truthfulness

    Antonyms

    * inaccuracy

    See also

    * precision * integrity * exactness * fidelity

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    applauseometer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * applausometer

    Noun

  • (informal, US) A device of dubious accuracy used to measure the volume of an audience’s applause.
  • * 1989 , Nov.–Dec., , volume 78, ? 2, page 24
    • Its four-color animation board has message capabilities, angled lenses for easy daytime viewing, and an applauseometer , which measures the crowd’s Longhorn-cheering levels.
  • * 2000 : Marshal Scott Younger, The Great Kidsboro Takeover , page 93 (Review and Herald Publishing Association; ISBN 0828014272, 9780828014274)
    • Again, there was scattered applause. I looked into the crowd at Nelson. He told me he was bringing a new invention — an applauseometer — to the debate.
  • * 2001 : Stanley Marcus, Quest for the Best , page 27] ([http://web3.unt.edu/untpress/catalog/detail.cfm?ID=227 University of North Texas Press; ISBN 1574411373, 9781574411379)
    • Is the best measurable? If so, by what kind of instrumentation? Certainly not by an “applauseometer ,” as used to record the volume of applause on the “Major Bowes Amateur Night Talent” shows during the heyday of radio. I know of no universal empirical devices, but I do believe that the best is discernible to the observant eye.

    Synonyms

    * clapometer