Exact

[ɪg'zækt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zækt]

Definition

(adj.) marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; 'an exact mind'; 'an exact copy'; 'hit the exact center of the target' .

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Definition

(a.) Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

(a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.

(a.) Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

(a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

(v. i.) To practice exaction.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Strict, scrupulous, methodical, punctual, nice, critical, upright, honest.[2]. Accurate, precise, literal, correct, true.

v. a. [1]. Extort, require authoritatively.[2]. Claim, demand.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See ACCURATE]

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Definition

v.t. to force from: to compel full payment of: to make great demands or to demand urgently: to extort: to inflict.—v.i. to practice extortion.—adj. precise: careful: punctual: true: certain or demonstrable.—p.adj. Exact′ing compelling full payment of: unreasonable in making demands.—ns. Exac′tion act of exacting or demanding strictly: an oppressive demand: that which is exacted as excessive work or tribute; Exact′itude exactness: correctness.—adv. Exact′ly.—ns. Exact′ment; Exact′ness quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or -er one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights often too strictly:—fem. Exact′ress.—Exact sciences the mathematical sciences of which the results are demonstrable.

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