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Correctness simply means being correct or right, without mistakes — correctness, mathematical correctness, factual correctness. There's also a very common phrase, 'political correctness' (often to 'PC'), which is about choosing words and behavior carefully to avoid offending or excluding people.
Correctness simply means being correct or right, without mistakescorrectness 單純的意思就是正確、沒有錯誤—— grammatical correctness, mathematical correctness, factual correctnessgrammatical correctness文法正確、mathematical correctness數學正確、factual correctness事實正確。 There's also a very common phrase, 'political correctness' (often shortened to 'PC')還有一個非常常見的詞組『political correctness』常縮寫成『PC』, which is about choosing words and behavior carefully to avoid offending or excluding people意思是小心選擇用詞和行為,避免冒犯或排斥別人。
That phrase is used two ways in real life: some people use it , to mean thoughtful, respectful language, and others use it as a complaint, to mean people being overly careful or too easily offended. So 'political correctness' especially is a phrase you should notice the speaker's tone on.
That phrase is used two ways in real life這個詞在現實生活裡有兩種用法: some people use it approvingly, to mean thoughtful, respectful language有些人是稱讚地用,意思是體貼、尊重人的用詞; and others use it as a complaint, to mean people being overly careful or too easily offended也有人是抱怨地用,意思是說人太過小心、太容易被冒犯。 So 'political correctness' especially is a phrase you should notice the speaker's tone on所以『political correctness』這個詞特別需要留意說話者的語氣。
組成correct + -ness.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
correctnessnoun
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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..
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Conformity to the truth or to fact.
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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.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。