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accurate 
1  adj Accurate information, measurements, and statistics are correct to a very detailed level. An accurate instrument is able to give you information of this kind.  (=precise)  (Antonym: inaccurate)  Police have stressed that this is the most accurate description of the killer to date..., Quartz timepieces are very accurate, to a minute or two per year.  
♦  accurately    adv 
The test can accurately predict what a bigger explosion would do.  
2  adj An accurate statement or account gives a true or fair judgment of something., (Antonym: inaccurate)  Joseph Stalin gave an accurate assessment of the utility of nuclear weapons..., They were accurate in their prediction that he would change her life drastically.  
♦  accurately  adv ADV with v 
What many people mean by the word `power' could be more accurately described as `control'.  
3  adj You can use accurate to describe the results of someone's actions when they do or copy something correctly or exactly., (Antonym: inaccurate)  Marks were given for accurate spelling and punctuation.  
4  adj An accurate weapon or throw reaches the exact point or target that it was intended to reach. You can also describe a person as accurate if they fire a weapon or throw something in this way., (Antonym: inaccurate)  The rifle was extremely accurate...  
♦  accurately  adv ADV with v  (=precisely) 
...the technology to aim bombs accurately from aircraft.