correctness

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Etymology

From correct +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

correctness (usually uncountable, plural correctnesses)

1. Freedom from error.
   • 2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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..

2. Conformity to the truth or to fact.
3. Conformity to recognized standards.
4. (computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

Antonyms

• incorrectness

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• correctedness

Translations

freedom from error

• Czech: správnost f
• Dutch: correctheid (nl) f, juistheid (nl) f
• Finnish: virheettömyys (fi)
• French: conformité, exactitude
• Georgian: სისწორე (sisc̣ore)
• German: Richtigkeit (de) f, Korrektheit (de) f
• Irish: cruinneas m
• Latvian: pareizība f, pareizums m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: riktighet m or f

• Ottoman Turkish: صواب (savab)
• Persian: درستی (fa) (dorosti)
• Romanian: corectitudine (ro)
• Russian: пра́вильность (ru) f (právilʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: corrección (es) f
• Swedish: korrekthet (sv) c

conformity to the truth or to fact

• Finnish: oikeellisuus (fi)
• French: véracité (fr) f
• Georgian: სისწორე (sisc̣ore), სინამდვილე (sinamdvile)
• German: Richtigkeit (de) f
• Latvian: pareizība f, pareizums m
• Russian: ве́рность (ru) f (vérnostʹ), пра́вильность (ru) f (právilʹnostʹ)

conformity to recognized standards

• Finnish: standardinmukaisuus
• Georgian: წესიერება (c̣esiereba), მართებულობა (martebuloba), კორექტულობა (ḳorekṭuloba)
• Latvian: pareizība f, pareizums m
• Russian: корре́ктность (ru) f (korréktnostʹ)
• Spanish: correctitud f, propriedad f

computing: state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification

• Finnish: virheettömyys (fi)
• German: Korrektheit (de) f
• Russian: корре́ктность (ru) f (korréktnostʹ)