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Uncertainty vs Accuracy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between uncertainty and accuracy

is that uncertainty is doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction while accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness.

uncertainty

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty , then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}
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  • , title= Tottenham 1-2 Norwich , passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}
  • (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
  • Antonyms

    * certainty

    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