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Accuracy vs Completeness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between accuracy and completeness

is that accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness while completeness is the state or condition of being complete.

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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    completeness

    English

    (wikipedia completeness)

    Noun

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  • the state or condition of being complete
  • (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 T \vDash \phi is true, then T \vdash \phi must also be true, for any wff ''φ'' of logic ''L .
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    • THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H'':
    (a) ''If'' \vDash F [''or even if'' \aleph_0-\vDash F], ''then'' \vdash F. ''If'' E_1, . . . , E_k \vDash F [''or even if'' E_1, . . . , E_k \ \aleph_0-\vDash F], ''then     E_1, . . . , E_k \vdash F.
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    Synonyms

    *(state of being complete ): completion

    Antonyms

    * incompleteness