correctness

Freedom from error.

Noun

  1. 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...
  2. Conformity to the truth or to fact.
  3. 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...
  4. The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

Origin

Etymology tree English correct Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English correctness From correct + -ness.

Forms

correctnesses

Antonyms

incorrectness

Related

correctedness

Derived

conservative correctness const correctness hyper-correctness patriotic correctness political correctness politically correctness pseudocorrectness