If something's exact, it's precise and completely accurate as opposed to a guess, an estimate, or an approximation.
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise;
Verb
take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
Verb
claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
Adjective S.
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
Adjective
marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"
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.
Exact
>I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.2.
An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason.
Exact
>He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last
My designs Exact me in another place.
Exact
>The anemy shall not exact upon him.
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise;
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;
To practice exaction.
Usage Examples
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
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