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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary

U.S. Department of Agriculture

accuracy

Subject Category: X Research, Technology and Engineering
Definition: The extent to which a measurement approaches the true value of the measured quantity.
Definition Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff
RDF/XML Format:: http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2177.rdf
Persistent URI:: http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2177
Broader Term: metrology
Related Term: bias; measurement; precision; reliability; uncertainty; validity
Spanish: exactitud
Term Number: 2177

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