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correctness

/kuh-rekt-nis/US // kəˈrɛkt nɪs //

正确性,正確性,正确度,正确率

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : conformity to fact or truth; freedom from error; accuracy: The correctness of the eyewitness’s account was later called into question.
    • : the quality of being proper; conformity to an acknowledged or accepted standard: We are concerned with the correctness of our probationers' conduct.
    • : the quality of being just or right in a judgment or opinion: We accepted the correctness of the tribunal’s ruling.
    • : an indication of or adherence to a liberal or progressive ideology on matters of ethnicity, religion, sexuality, ecology, etc.: A car strewn with Styrofoam cups is hardly a testimony to environmental correctness.

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Examples

  • Uploaded code is run in a sandboxed Docker container and its output tested for correctness.

  • Others have challenged the correctness of their ratings on the basis that the agencies had not discussed them with the country’s representatives.

  • So, saying that we would have been safer to call it by a different name because of political correctness, I throw that out the window.

  • The search for those has been intense, as they are taken as the main possible confirmation of the correctness of inflation.

  • Most times, these are not due to correctness or error from your end.

  • Thus the adoption of any particular verb is a matter of taste, not a question of absolute correctness.

  • That was why he had his own plane, a big dual-prop Martin 404 called, in those days before political correctness, El Dago.

  • I do not believe in political correctness, by the way, OK?

  • The league has never kicked out someone for speech before, but the era of smartphones and political correctness may change that.

  • And just who exactly is being silenced by political correctness?

  • Judge: Now, Sir, your punishment shall depend on the shortness and correctness of your answers.

  • He was engaged in the Encyclopedie, and his articles on grammar are drawn up with great precision, correctness and judgment.

  • Who are you, as you speak our language with such correctness that you might almost be taken for one of our countrymen?

  • He knew a good deal by memory, and repeated many passages with feeling and correctness.

  • He was the more convinced of the correctness of this from the fact that the word for trunk or box, in French, is coffre.