exact
strictly accurate or correct: an exact likeness; an exact description.
precise, as opposed to approximate: the exact sum; the exact date.
admitting of no deviation, as laws or discipline; strict or rigorous.
capable of the greatest precision: exact instruments.
characterized by or using strict accuracy: an exact thinker.
Mathematics. (of a differential equation) noting that the collection of all terms, equated to zero, is an exact differential.
to call for, demand, or require: to exact respect from one's children.
to force or compel the payment, yielding, or performance of: to exact money; to exact tribute from a conquered people.
Origin of exact
1synonym study For exact
Other words for exact
Opposites for exact
Other words from exact
- ex·act·a·ble, adjective
- ex·act·er, ex·ac·tor, noun
- ex·act·ness, noun
- non·ex·act·a·ble, adjective
- pre·ex·act, adjective, verb (used with object)
- qua·si-ex·act, adjective
- qua·si-ex·act·ly, adverb
- un·ex·act·ed, adjective
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How to use exact in a sentence
The crowd-sourced data provides many more measurements but without the same exact comparability of more planned phone tests.
There’s more 5G available in big cities. But which carrier is fastest? | Aaron Pressman | November 19, 2020 | FortuneNobody’s sure of the exact stats on the mosaic of Kebler groves in the Gunnison National Forest, but researchers suspect they could be bigger.
County and precinct analyses have some limitations, and more detailed research will help us nail down exact shifts among demographic groups.
How Georgia Turned Blue | Perry Bacon Jr. (perry.bacon@fivethirtyeight.com) | November 18, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightNext, Malik hopes to do more studies to understand the exact function of Nicknack.
A key to the mystery of fast-evolving genes was found in ‘junk DNA’ | Monique Brouillette | November 16, 2020 | Science NewsWhich is just fine since I’ve come up with a scheduling Ur-theory of life which, in an exhaustive series of cases that I’ve considered success or failure, hinges every time on doing the exact right thing at the right time.
The unemployed have a right to be anxious about the ravages on their families exacted by their unemployment.
Ebola, ISIS, the Border: So Much to Fear, So Little Time! | Gene Robinson | November 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI really think this season is about the toll that is exacted on intelligence officers doing their work.
‘Homeland’ Showrunner: ‘We Knew We Had to Plot a New Course’ | Andrew Romano | September 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShortly after, a mob of Buddhists exacted retribution by pulling over a bus carrying Muslims and beating 10 passengers to death.
Burma’s Rohingya Muslims Targeted by Buddhist Mob Violence | Brendan Brady | June 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut all too often, the price exacted for behaving like a human being is far too dear.
Mitt Romney Is Human! But Media Thinks He Shouldn’t Act Like It | Lloyd Grove | April 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt turned out all those years of keeping the flying public safe had exacted a physical toll on the one guy not on the radar: me.
She reached forward to it in ecstasy; but she might not enjoy it, save at the price which her conscience exacted.
Hilda Lessways | Arnold BennettThus, all that has been said of the pretended adoration exacted by Alexander is founded on ambiguity.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)And there, to be frank, she forgot her fright in as bitter a tribute of seasickness as even the channel has ever exacted.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartChastity, necessitated by vast designs, exacted by so many sickly conditions, was written upon that face.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de BalzacThe most obdurate heart could not have exacted further patience, and Cæsar instantly gave in.
The Spy | J. Fenimore Cooper
British Dictionary definitions for exact
/ (ɪɡˈzækt) /
correct in every detail; strictly accurate: an exact copy
precise, as opposed to approximate; neither more nor less: the exact sum
(prenominal) specific; particular: this exact spot
operating with very great precision: exact instruments
allowing no deviation from a standard; rigorous; strict: an exact mind
based mainly on measurement and the formulation of laws, as opposed to description and classification: physics is an exact science
to force or compel (payment or performance); extort: to exact tribute
to demand as a right; insist upon: to exact respect from one's employees
to call for or require: this work exacts careful effort
Origin of exact
1Derived forms of exact
- exactable, adjective
- exactness, noun
- exactor or exacter, noun
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