1. (adj.)exact strictly accurate or correct: an exact description.
2. exact precise, as opposed to approximate: the exact date.
3. exact admitting of no deviation, as laws or discipline; strict or rigorous.
4. exact capable of the greatest precision: exact instruments.
5. exact characterized by or using strict accuracy: an exact thinker.
6. (v.t.)exact to call for, demand, or require: to exact respect.
7. exact to force or compel the payment, yielding, or performance of: to exact a ransom.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < L exāctus, orig. ptp. of exigere to drive out, enforce, exact =ex-ex -1+-igere, comb. form of agere to drive, do, act)
Definition of 'exact'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)exact marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target"
2. (verb)accurate, exact, precise (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfectconformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
3. (verb)demand, exact claim as due or just "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
4. (verb)claim, take, exact take as an undesirableconsequence of some event or state of affairs "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
1. (adjective)exact ≠ approximate the exact details; exact directions to my house; the exact amount of money
Definition of 'exact'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)exact precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts
2. (adj)exact habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact
3. (adj)exact precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict
4. (adj)exact to demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one
Sense: absolutely accurate or correct in every detail; the same in every detail; precise What are the exact measurements of the room?; For this recipe the quantities must be absolutely exact; an exact copy; What is the exact time?; He walked in at that exact moment.
Definitions of exact 
Afrikaans: presies
Arabic: مَضْبوط، صَحيح
Bulgarian: точен
Brazilian: exato
Czech: přesný
German: genau
Danish: nøjagtig; præcis
Greek: ακριβής, ορθός
Spanish: exacto
Estonian: täpne
Farsi: دقیق
Finnish: tarkka
French: exact
Hebrew: מְדוּיָק
Hindi: ठीक
Croatian: točan, egzaktan
Hungarian: pontos
Indonesian: tepat
Icelandic: nákvæmur
Italian: esatto
Japanese: 正確な
Korean: 정확한
Lithuanian: tikslus
Latvian: precīzs
Malay: tepat
Dutch: precies
Norwegian: nøyaktig, presis
Polish: dokładny
Persian: دقیق
Pashto: دقیق
Portuguese: exacto
Romanian: exact
Russian: точный
Slovak: presný
Slovenian: točen
Serbian: tačan
Swedish: exakt
Thai: ถูกต้องแม่นยำ
Turkish: tam
Taiwanese: 精確的
Ukrainian: точний
Urdu: بالکل صحیح تفصیل
Vietnamese: chính xác
Chinese: 精确的
