correctness

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Etymology

From correct +‎ -ness.

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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:
      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.
    • 2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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 is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't.
  4. (computing) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

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