Accurate vs. Adequate: What's the Difference?

Conforming exactly to fact; errorless.

Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need.

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits from a standard.

Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.

Capable of providing a correct reading or measurement

A sufficient amount of; enough.

Acting or performing with care and precision; meticulous

(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

(obsolete) To equal.

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.

(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

To equalize; to make adequate.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

To equal.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

(sometimes followed by `to') meeting the requirements especially of a task;

Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy;

Enough to meet a purpose;

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;

About average; acceptable;