Definition of "accurate"

For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page x

for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have

1625, Bacon, Of the Vicissitude of Things