correctness
nounEtymology From correct + -ness.
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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:
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Usually Conformity to the truth or to fact.
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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 23, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Usually The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
- Antonyms
- incorrectness
- Derived terms
- conservative correctness, const correctness, hyper-correctness, patriotic correctness, political correctness, politically correctness, pseudocorrectness
- Related terms
- correctedness