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Meaning of Correctness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Freedom from error.
    uncountable, usually
  2. Conformity to the truth or to fact.
    uncountable, usually
  3. Conformity to recognized standards.
    uncountable, usually
  4. The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
    uncountable, usually

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Examples

“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..”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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