Definitions for exact

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exact ex·act

Spelling: [ig-zakt]

IPA: /ɪgˈzækt/

Exact is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in exact (acetx).

Definitions for exact

adjective

1. strictly accurate or correct:
2. precise, as opposed to approximate:
3. admitting of no deviation, as laws or discipline; strict or rigorous.
4. capable of the greatest precision:
5. characterized by or using strict accuracy:
6. Mathematics. (of a differential equation) noting that the collection of all terms, equated to zero, is an exact differential.

verb (used with object)

1. to call for, demand, or require:
2. to force or compel the payment, yielding, or performance of:

Origin of exact

1400-50; late Middle English exacten (v.) Latin exāctus (past participle of exigere drive out, thrust out), equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + ag(ere) to drive + -tus

Examples for exact

“Be exact in what you say,” Ossipon lectured in the swift motion of the hansom.

She was in countenance the exact counterpart of the general.

Cooper had little Alexis pose for a picture on the exact spot there Garner was pinned.

The first relates to the exact period of his residence at Leyden University.

So certain was he as to the exact locality, that he offered to conduct a party to the place.

And by the time an airplane was in the water, its exact position would be known.

How a late change in strategy may have sent Democratic volunteers after the exact wrong type of voter.

As a matter of exact reasoning, that is quite within the measure of possibility.

Behind him stood a flock of fifth-grade boys—and two second-grade girls—all of them wearing the exact same yellow hat.

He will tell you why became a cop with the exact same words used by DePrimo and many of their fellow officers.