correctness

Noun

correctness (usually uncountable, plural correctnesses)

1. (usually) 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..2016, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Nicholas J. Curtis, Chih-Jen Sung, “pyJac: analytical Jacobian generator for chemical kinetics”, in arXiv
2. (usually) Conformity to the truth or to fact.
3. (usually) 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...2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic
4. (usually) The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.