# exact
## English
### Etymology

From Latin exāctus (the verb via Middle English exact), perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due; measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪɡˈzækt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ækt

### Adjective

exact (comparative exacter or more exact, superlative exactest or most exact)
* Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
    The clock keeps exact time.
    He paid the exact debt.
    an exact copy of a letter
    exact accounts
* Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
    a man exact in observing an appointment
    In my doings I was exact.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:I see thou art exact of taste.
** 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond‎: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 […]
* Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
** 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, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason.
* (not comparable, homological algebra, of a sequence of morphisms in an abelian category) Such that the kernel of each morphism is the image of the preceding one.
* (not comparable, homological algebra, of a functor of abelian categories) Such that it preserves short exact sequences.
    Hypernyms: left exact, right exact

#### Synonyms

* (precisely agreeing): perfect, true, correct, precise
* (precisely or definitely conceived or stated): strict
* spot on

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “precisely agreeing”): inexact, imprecise, approximate
* (antonym(s) of “precisely or definitely conceived or stated”): loose

#### Derived terms

* exactamundo
* exact change
* exact cover
* exactification
* exactify
* exactly
* exactment
* exactness
* exact rhyme
* exact same
* exact science
* exact sequence
* long exact sequence
* nonexact
* overexact
* same exact
* short exact sequence
* superexact
* unexact

#### Translations
### Verb

exact (third-person singular simple present exacts, present participle exacting, simple past and past participle exacted)
* (transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
    to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 3:13:He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
** 2018, Edo Konrad, “Living in the constant shadow of settler violence”, in +972 Magazine: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.
** 2020 September 19, statement of Clarence Thomas on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
    She was a superb judge who gave her best and exacted the best from each of us, whether in agreement or disagreement.
** 2020, Kristine Henriksen Garroway, John W. Martens, Children and Methods, page 139:[…] a generic, strikingly universal, deity, “ha-elohim,” who tests, who exacts and extracts, and who is the object of fear […]
* (transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
** c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene iv, signature I, verso:I vvait, Madam, / To knovv vvhat your commands are; my deſignes / Exact me in another place.
* (transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce; to visit.
    to exact revenge on someone

#### Usage notes

* Often used with the preposition from or on.

#### Derived terms

* exactable
* exacter
* exacting
* exaction
* exactor
* unexacted

#### Translations
### Adverb

exact (comparative more exact, superlative most exact)
* exactly
    She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!

#### Synonyms

* (error-free manner): accurately, just, precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly

### Further reading

* “exact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “exact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “exact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French exact, from Middle French exact, from Latin exāctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛkˈsɑkt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: exact
* Rhymes: -ɑkt

### Adjective

exact (comparative exacter, superlative exactst)
* exact, precise

#### Derived terms

* exactheid

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: eksak

## French
### Etymology

From Latin exāctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛɡ.zakt/, (old-fashioned) /ɛɡ.za/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

exact (feminine exacte, masculine plural exacts, feminine plural exactes)
* exact; precise

#### Derived terms

* exactement
* science exacte

### Further reading

* “exact”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French exact.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eɡˈzakt/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

exact m or n (feminine singular exactă, masculine plural exacți, feminine and neuter plural exacte)
* exact, precise

#### Declension
### Adverb

exact
* exactly, precisely

#### See also

* precis