GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Accuracy is defined as ‘the degree to which the result of a measurement conforms to the correct value or a standard’ and essentially refers to how close a measurement is to its agreed value.

Detailed explanation-2: -Accuracy is the degree to which theresult of a measurement, calculation, or specification conforms to the. correct value or a standard.

Detailed explanation-3: -Accuracy of measurement is the older phrase and its internationally agreed definition is ‘… the closeness of the agreement between the result of a measurement and a true value of the thing being measured’.

Detailed explanation-4: -The closeness of two or more measurements to each other is known as the precision of a substance. If you weigh a given substance five times and get 3.2 kg each time, then your measurement is very precise but not necessarily accurate.

Detailed explanation-5: -trueness applies to the average value of a large number of measurement results, while. accuracy applies to a single result of measurement.