Meaning of exact in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

  Example: to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone

• To make desirable or necessary.

• To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

  Example: to exact revenge on someone

adjective

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

  Example: He paid the exact debt.

• Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

  Example: In my doings I was exact.

• Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

• (of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

adverb

• Exactly

  Example: She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!