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ex⋅act
[ig-zakt] 
–adjective
| 1. | strictly accurate or correct: an exact likeness; an exact description. |
| 2. | precise, as opposed to approximate: the exact sum; the exact date. |
| 3. | admitting of no deviation, as laws or discipline; strict or rigorous. |
| 4. | capable of the greatest precision: exact instruments. |
| 5. | characterized by or using strict accuracy: an exact thinker. |
| 6. | Mathematics. (of a differential equation) noting that the collection of all terms, equated to zero, is an exact differential. |
–verb (used with object)
| 7. | to call for, demand, or require: to exact respect from one's children. |
| 8. | to force or compel the payment, yielding, or performance of: to exact money; to exact tribute from a conquered people. |
Origin:
1400–50; late ME exacten (v.) < L exāctus (ptp. of exigere drive out, thrust out), equiv. to ex- ex- 1 + ag(ere) to drive + -tus ptp. suffix
1400–50; late ME exacten (v.) < L exāctus (ptp. of exigere drive out, thrust out), equiv. to ex- ex- 1 + ag(ere) to drive + -tus ptp. suffix
Related forms:
ex⋅act⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ex⋅act⋅er, ex⋅ac⋅tor, noun
ex⋅act⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
3. rigid, severe, unbending. 5. methodical, careful, punctilious, demanding, scrupulous. 8. wring. See extract.
3. rigid, severe, unbending. 5. methodical, careful, punctilious, demanding, scrupulous. 8. wring. See extract.
Antonyms:
1, 2. imprecise.
1, 2. imprecise.
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| ex·act (ĭg-zākt') adj.
[Latin exāctus, past participle of exigere, to weigh out, demand : ex-, ex- + agere, to weigh; see ag- in Indo-European roots.] ex·act'a·ble adj., ex·act'ness n., ex·ac'tor, ex·act'er n. |
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Exact
Ex*act"\, a. [L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See Agent, Act.]1. 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. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. --Jowett (Thucyd. ) 2. 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. "I see thou art exact of taste." --Milton. 3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason. --Shak.Exact
Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact, 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. He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. --Luke. iii. 13. Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. --Massinger.Exact
Ex*act"\, v. i. To practice exaction. [R.] The anemy shall not exact upon him. --Ps. lxxxix. 22.
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exact (adj.)
"precise, rigorous, accurate," 1533, from L. exactus, pp. of exigere, lit. "to drive or force out," also "demand, finish, measure," from ex- "out" + agere "drive, lead, act" (see act). The verb (1380, implied in exaction) is older in Eng. and represents the literal sense of the Latin. Exacting "too demanding" is from 1583. Elliptical use of exactly for "quite right" not recorded before 1869. Exacta as a type of horse-racing bet is first attested 1964, said to have originated in N.Y.
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