Usually means: Precise, accurate, without any deviation.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word exact:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. exact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. exact: Collins English Dictionary
  3. exact: Vocabulary.com
  4. Exact, exact, eXact: Wordnik
  5. exact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. exact: Wiktionary
  7. exact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. exact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. exact: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Exact, exact: Dictionary.com
  11. exact (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. exact: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. EX'ACT, Ex'Act, Exact (company), Exact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Exact: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. exact: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. exact: Rhymezone
  17. exact, exact, exact(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. exact: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. exact: Free Dictionary
  20. exact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. exact: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. exact: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. exact: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. exact: Merriam-Webster.com
  25. exact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. exact: Glossary of research economics
  2. exact: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exact: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. EXACT: Acronym Finder
  2. exact: Idioms
  3. exact: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Exact: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. exact (differential form): PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See exactable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
adjective:  Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
adjective:  Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
adjective:  (algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
verb:  (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
verb:  (transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
adverb:  exactly

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