Definition of "exact"

exact

/ɪɡˈzækt/

adjective
comparative exacter or more exact, superlative exactest or most exact
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.
  Quotations
  I see thou art exact of taste.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
  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 […]
  1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond‎
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
  Quotations
  An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
4. (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
verb
third-person singular simple present exacts, present participle exacting, simple past and past participle exacted
1. (transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  Quotations
  He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 3:13
  Their goal is retributive: to exact a price from Palestinian civilians (and in some cases left-wing Israeli Jews, Christians, and Israeli security forces) for actions Israeli authorities take against the settlers, usually building enforcement in illegally built settlements.
  2018, Edo Konrad, “Living in the constant shadow of settler violence”, in +972 Magazine
  She was a superb judge who gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or disagreement.
  2020 September 19, statement of Clarence Thomas on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  […] a generic, strikingly universal, deity, “ha-elohim,” who tests, who exacts and extracts, and who is the object of fear […]
  2020, Kristine Henriksen Garroway, John W. Martens, Children and Methods, page 139
2. (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
  Quotations
  My designs exact me in another place.
  1632, Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour
3. (transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
adverb
comparative more exact, superlative most exact
1. exactly

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