Meaning

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect..

Definitions by Sense

1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
4. (not comparable, homological algebra, of a sequence of morphisms in an abelian category) Such that the kernel of each morphism is the image of the preceding one.
5. (not comparable, homological algebra, of a functor of abelian categories) Such that it preserves short exact sequences.
6. (ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
7. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
8. (transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce; to visit.

Example Sentences

The clock keeps exact time.

He paid the exact debt.

an exact copy of a letter

exact accounts

a man exact in observing an appointment

In my doings I was exact.

I see thou art exact of taste.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

Word Forms

• exacter
• more exact
• exactest
• most exact
• exacts
• exacting
• exacted

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Use exact when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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