exact - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

If something's exact it means it's precise and completely accurate — as opposed to a guess, an estimate or an approximation.

Exact also has the meaning of taking something from someone, often money, and generally only given up with reluctance under the threat of force. The Mob might exact a shakedown from unfortunate businessmen, for example. The word comes from the Latin exactus "exact or accurate," a form of the verb exigere — meaning "to force out or demand," like the Mob demanding its money.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: exact

1	adj	marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
2	v	take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: exact

1

adj marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact

“an exact mind”

“an exact copy”

“hit the exact center of the target”

Synonyms: accurate
conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; direct, verbatim
in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; literal
without interpretation or embellishment; mathematical
characterized by the exactness or precision of mathematics; perfect
precisely accurate or exact; photographic
representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph; rigorous, strict
rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; literal
limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; perfect
being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; precise
sharply exact or accurate or delimited

Antonyms:: inexact
not exact; inaccurate
not exact; approximate, approximative, rough
not quite exact or correct; free, liberal, loose
not literal; odd
an indefinite quantity more than that specified; round
(mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand; imprecise
not precise; show more antonyms...

adj (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct

Synonyms:: accurate, precise

: correct, right
free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth

2

v take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

Synonyms:: claim, take

: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take
require as useful, just, or proper

Type of:: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take
require as useful, just, or proper

v claim as due or just

Synonyms:: demand

Types:: command
demand as one's due; call, call in
demand payment of (a loan)

Type of:: claim
ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example