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[ adjective ] marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
Examples "an exact mind" "an exact copy" "hit the exact center of the target" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Because of this , only those with truly fine equipment will be able to appreciate the exact degree of the engineers ' triumph . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)When a man recognizes a certain experience as the exact pattern of a previous dream , we have an instance of deja_vu , except for the fact that he knows just why the experience seems familiar . One day Maeterlinck , coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream , detailed the ensuing occurrences in_advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)He had noticed how formal and irritably exact Rachel had grown . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)In matters of exact information , that kept her one step behind developments ; and so they were consistently true to their principles . |
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[ adjective ] exact in performance or amount; strictly correct
Examples "a precise instrument" "a precise measurement" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)She may not have been exact on this number , but others here feel quite certain that the percentage would be less_than ten . (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures , however , believing that any sum they come_up with is only a surface manifestation - turned_up by their inevitably limited policing - of the real loot of the medical racketeer . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)In free_burning electric arcs , for_instance , approximately 90 % of the total arc power is transferred to the anode giving_rise to local heat fluxes in excess of **f as measured by the authors - the exact value depending_on the arc atmosphere . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)In certain other pictures , however , Braque began to paint areas in exact simulation of wood graining or marbleizing . Related terms |
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[ verb ] take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
Examples "the accident claimed three lives" "The hard work took its toll on her" Related terms |
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