different between accuracy vs rigour

English

Etymology

• First attested in the 1660s.
• accurate +? -cy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?ækj?r?s?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æk.j?.?.si/

Noun

accuracy (countable and uncountable, plural accuracies)

1. The state of being accurate; being free from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; correctness
   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.

Synonyms

• correctness
• truthfulness

Antonyms

• inaccuracy

Translations

See also

• precision
• integrity
• exactness
• fidelity

Further reading

• accuracy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• rigor (US)

Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Homophones: rigor, rigger

Noun

rigour (countable and uncountable, plural rigours)

1. Severity or strictness.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 1:13–14:

     And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

2. Harshness, as of climate.
3. A trembling or shivering response.
4. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
5. Shrewd questioning.
6. Higher level of difficulty. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (Britain) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).

Related terms

• rigid
• rigorous
• rigorousness

Translations

Further reading

• rigour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rigour in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.