Exact

Quick meaning: Exact is an adjective meaning Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
2. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
3. (not comparable, homological algebra, of a functor of abelian categories) Such that it preserves short exact sequences.
4. (ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
5. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
6. (transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce; to visit.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

exact accounts

He paid the exact debt.

an exact copy of a letter

In my doings I was exact.

Word Forms

• exacter
• exactest
• exacts
• exacting
• exacted

Synonyms for exact

Depending on context, synonyms include perfect, true, correct, precise, strict, accurately.

Antonyms for exact

Common opposites include inexact, imprecise, approximate, loose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perfect, accurate, precise, literal, verbatim, word-for-word.

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