correctness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English correct Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English correctness From correct + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) Freedom from error.
As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..
2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv:
- (uncountable, usually) Conformity to the truth or to fact.
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(uncountable, usually) Conformity to recognized standards.
I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't.
2002 October 14, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic:
- (uncountable, usually) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
Forms
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| correctnesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
conservative correctness · const correctness · hyper-correctness · politically correctness · patriotic correctness · political correctness · pseudocorrectness
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Translations (48)
cs správnost (freedom from error) · el ορθότητα (freedom from error) · nl correctheid (freedom from error) · lv pareizība (conformity to recognized standards) · fr véracité (conformity to the truth or to fact) · ru корре́ктность (computing: state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification) · uk пра́вильність (conformity to the truth or to fact) · ota صواب (freedom from error) · nb riktighet (freedom from error) · it correttezza (conformity to the truth or to fact) · ka სინამდვილე (conformity to the truth or to fact) · ru пра́вильность (freedom from error) · ka სისწორე (conformity to the truth or to fact) · lv pareizums (freedom from error) · lv pareizums (conformity to recognized standards) · ru ве́рность (conformity to the truth or to fact) · uk коре́ктність (conformity to recognized standards) · ka კორექტულობა (conformity to recognized standards) · fi oikeellisuus (conformity to the truth or to fact) · de Richtigkeit (conformity to the truth or to fact) · fi virheettömyys (computing: state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification) · fi virheettömyys (freedom from error) · de Korrektheit (freedom from error) · es corrección (freedom from error) · fi standardinmukaisuus (conformity to recognized standards) · ro corectitudine (freedom from error) · it correttezza (conformity to recognized standards) · fr exactitude (conformity to the truth or to fact) · fr justesse (freedom from error) · ru корре́ктность (conformity to recognized standards) · nl juistheid (freedom from error) · fr exactitude (freedom from error) · fa درستی (freedom from error) · lv pareizība (conformity to the truth or to fact) · uk пра́вильність (freedom from error) · lv pareizība (freedom from error) · ka მართებულობა (conformity to recognized standards) · es correctitud (conformity to recognized standards) · ka წესიერება (conformity to recognized standards) · de Richtigkeit (freedom from error) · it correttezza (freedom from error) · sv korrekthet (freedom from error) · el ορθότητα (conformity to the truth or to fact) · ka სისწორე (freedom from error) · ru пра́вильность (conformity to the truth or to fact) · de Korrektheit (computing: state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification) · lv pareizums (conformity to the truth or to fact) · ga cruinneas (freedom from error)