correctness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Freedom from error.

   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. 2
   noun

   Conformity to recognized standards.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   conformity to fact or truth

4. 4
   noun

   the quality of conformity to social expectations

5. 5
   noun

   Conformity to the truth or to fact.

6. 6
   noun

   The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.

Etymology

From correct + -ness.